"El Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno" ("The First New Chronicle and Good Government" in English), is a Peruvian chronicle finished around 1615. Its author, the indigenous Peruvian Felipe Guaman Poma of Ayala, sent it as a handwritten manuscript to Ki

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"El Primer Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno" ("The First New Chronicle and Good Government" in English), is a Peruvian chronicle finished around 1615. Its author, the indigenous Peruvian Felipe Guaman Poma of Ayala, sent it as a handwritten manuscript to King Philip III of Spain. His purpose was to give a historical account of the Andes from the earliest human beings to the Incas and the Spanish conquest; The chronicle covers ancient Andean history, the rise of the Inca empire, the Spanish conquest in the 1530s, and early colonial society and government.

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