Astral Codex Ten

Pizarro

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Pizarro

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Pizarro is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between October 10, 2022 and August 22, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “he opened the way for Cortes and Pizarro”; “Peru was around two hundred years removed from Pizarro’s apocalyptic conquest”. It most often appears alongside Spain, 9-11, Adraste.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: October 10, 2022
  • Last seen: August 22, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Highlights From The Comments On Columbus Day
October 10, 2022 · Original source
Of course, there’s the broader issue - whatever Columbus did or didn’t do himself, he opened the way for Cortes and Pizarro and the eradication of native tribes in America and the series of epidemics and slave plantation systems that killed most of the natives alive in 1492. I’m reluctant to attribute this to Columbus (who didn’t do most of it, couldn’t have predicted most of it, and died before most of it happened), because then you would also have to credit Columbus for all the good things he caused in the far future that he couldn’t have predicted - like America inventing vaccines or helping win World War II. On the other hand, if we don’t credit him at all for things he couldn’t have predicted, we can’t credit him for discovering the New World at all (all he predicted was that he might reach Asia faster than usual) and he becomes an inconsequential figure. If we’re celebrating Columbus Day at all, then it has to be because we’re attributing downstream effects to him, in which case he had many downstream effects but these were (hopefully) overwhelmed by the good effects of the US and all other modern New World countries.
Your Review: Ollantay
August 22, 2025 · Original source
When Ollantay was first performed, Peru was around two hundred years removed from Pizarro’s apocalyptic conquest. The population was finally starting to recover, so that in 1770 it sat at around 1.2 million people. The vast majority of those 1.2 million people were indigenous,3 and the vast majority of those 1.2 million people did not have great lives. Peru was oriented almost exclusively towards extracting mineral wealth from the mountains and moving it to Spain.
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