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Bolivia They worship two gods. The Catholic one imposed by the Spaniards and the Sun^God; the Inca god of their ancestors. They pray for both, their own god in Quetzal language and the Catholic one in Castilian, each one in the language they understand. la Paz, most of them belong to the Aymara, a town dominated first by the Incas and later by the conquerors. Some people say that the Incas annexed peacefully and respectfully to Aymara, then they assimilated their culture, a similar analogy like the Greeks did to the Romans. However, others argue that there were bloody wars for the conquest of the Aymara territory, and that during the Inca domain were enough rebellions. Whatever the truth is, the Incas were unable to impose their language, Quechua, to the Aymara culture, especially on the plateau of Titicaca. The conquistadors and the Incas One of the keys of the conquerors to dominate the Aymara people was the territorial division in places where they had been dominated by the Incas and no longer had such a definite identity.