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Viceroyalty of Peru
The Viceroyalty of Peru, controlled by Spain, was founded after the defeat of the Inka in 1534. It encompassed modern-day Peru as well as much of the rest of South America (the Portuguese controlled what is today Brazil).
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"The author on his way to Lima (self-portrait)," Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (portrait of Tupac Yupanqui, Tenth Inka), 1615 (Royal Danish Library)