This Lesson's logo is Pizarro's cavalry

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The conquest of Chile, to the south of the Inca Empire in Peru, was not easy. The principal difference between this one and the conquests of Mexico and Peru was that the Indigenous peoples of Chile, mainly the tribe known as the Araucanians, were nomadic, and did not have a highly centralized organization such as did the Aztecs or Incas. Thus, it was not possible for the Spanish to capture the head of the empire and then substitute their authority for his. The Araucanians were also fierce fighters, and the Incas had never been able to subjugate them; in fact the Araucanians were probably the only Indigenous group never conquered by force, and sporadic fighting between them and the European settlers continued until the late 1800s'.