Most of the world has proved incompetent at distinguishing anything in Latin America before 1650. It's all just one giant cultural chimera that manages to be everywhere at once on one and a half continents. I've got a stock set of answers for the frequent question, "The Inca? They were like the Aztecs, right?" Often, when told that Peru and Mexico aren't the same place, I get the "Oh, well, close enough. They both speak Spanish."

The most recent screen blunder I can remember is in an episode of Agents of SHIELD earlier this year. The team goes to an archaeological site in the jungles of Peru. Of course, it's a giant Maya pyramid. That's like sending James Bond to Pakistan and chasing a villain into the Colosseum.