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There is the optic of author William Hickling Prescott, American scientific historian, and his excerpt from History of the Conquest of Peru, 1847. He referred to the despotic government of the Incas in Perú. The other optic is from author Kirk Munroe, an American writer, and his excerpt is from "The White Conquerors: A Tale of Toltec and Aztec," 1893. This book refers to the tyranny of Aztecs leaders and how the used sacrifices and fires to send a message to their enemies. For the author, this represented a symbol of power, meaning that for the Aztecs, their power was supreme in Mesoamerica.
In the case of the Peruvian text, the author considered that this despotic exert of power was the result of heredity and people had to pay heavy taxation, suffering the consequences of being poor.
