Romanticism hoped to find truth A. in nature and emotion. A quick look at Romantic art and literature highlights this point. Take, for instance, Caspar David Friedrich's <em>Wanderer above the Sea of Fog </em>(1818)<em>. </em>The painting depicts a lone man standing on a rock in the midst of nature, looking off into the distance in a very contemplative mood. Mary Shelley's book <em>Frankenstein </em>also employs a great deal of Romantic motifs such as entire sections describing Dr. Frankenstein wandering through the mountains where Shelley illustrates (in great detail) the aspects of nature around him.
Some of the peoples it conquered didn't want to be ruled by the Incas and were rebellious, mainly, and it was so big that it couldn't keep the conquered in line very well.