There can be no question that the Royal Incas were a
different race of people from the people they ruled.
There was a very close association between the
Royal Incas and the Aymara people of Lake Titicaca, in which the Aymara served
the Royal Incas out of choice. The Incas used the Aymara as an administrative
buffer between themselves and the peoples they ruled.
The Spanish were aware of these facts, and
Spanish Captains sought Royal Inca Princesses as their wives. A Sergeant in
the Spanish Army dedicated (with permission) his entire military career to
recording the lives and customs of the common people ruled by the Incas. The
Roman Catholic Church found it relatively easy to win converts from among the
peoples ruled by the Incas, but next to impossible to convert Incas themselves.