By Sacha

When Pizarro came to South America, he tried to make the Incas practice Christianity. However, as so many rulers in history have learned, it is difficult to force a religion onto another people, and the Incas managed to incorporate their own religion into that of the Catholics.

Spot the difference

First of all, the Spanish wanted to put their stamp on the Inca empire, so they established a Cusco School of Art, to make the artists copy great works of art from their own country. However, the Incas refused to completely copy it, so they put in many aspects if their culture in. In the paintings, as well as the God, the one and only, the Incas inserted Pacha Mama, or Mother Earth, into their religion as well. In the church we went too, there many pictures of the Virgin Mary, wearing the cultural dress of the Incas. Also, in a statue of Jesus hanging on the cross, he is wearing a traditional Incan skirt (for men, of course