The first new chronicle and good government: on the history of the world and the Incas up to 1615

University of North Carolina at Greensboro One of the most compelling documents from the early colonial period of Peru, for ethnohistorians and archaeologists alike, is Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's (1936Ayala's ( 1615]) El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno, which is a detailed and illustrated letter addressed to the king of Spain, Philip III.This document is held by the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen, and a digital copy is available on their web page.Although Guaman Poma was born after the conquest and wrote this work some seventy years after the fall of the Inka Empire, scholars use it, especially its detailed illustrations, as a valued source to understand pre-Hispanic Inka times.Roland Hamilton's