They thought they were safe, within their vertiginous mountains, defended on all sides by steep passages and a whole system of ingenious defenses! But how could they suspect that one day they would be invaded by scrap-covered beings with the power to kill remotely with fire sticks? The game of war proved to be completely unequal. It must be said that the Indians were served by their myths that thought they would see the arrival of the white gods: the Viracochas. The Conquistadors took a low hand over all the riches of this civilization, accumulated over the centuries, especially the gold that was known to be particularly greedy. Fortunately, a huge part of the Inca treasures had the time to be hidden by the Indians in places so lost that no one had yet found them.