Atahualpa was 13 and the last Inca ruler. He was born probably around 1502nd When his father died unexpectedly in 1528 in a smallpox broke out between Atahualpa and his half brother, a bitter dispute since the succession was not regulated.
War for the throne
As Atahualpa finally after 5 years was presented as the winner, the Incas were so weakened that the Spanish were able to win with only 180 men, 27 horses and guns and three, the Inca Empire. So their fate was sealed. Pizarro had the king taken prisoner and 4,000 Inca warriors, who were unarmed at the time of peace, massacred.
The lust for gold
Atahualpa quickly realized that he had directed the Spanish in the gold and silver. As for the Inca gold was not valuable, but a precious metal, which promised a ransom to secure the room where he was caught stuffing (6.70 m by 5.20 m) to finish with the gold. I also wanted a cabin filled twice with silver. The gold that Pizarro and his followers were weighed, 13,400 pounds of silver and 26 000 pounds. Atahualpa has not been released. The king's death was a fact, because the conquerors believed to have an easy time with a people without leadership. On August 29, 1533 was sentenced to the stake Atahualpa, but "by grace" strangled.
The Inca The word "Inca"originally referred only to the supreme ruler, who was the son of the sun and was revered as a god. Later, all the people "Inca"was mentioned. The word comes from the state language of the Incas, Quechua, which is still spoken by over six million inhabitants of the Andes.
The Inca Empire
The Inca state had an area of 500km ˛. A total of 13 leaders of Manco Capac, Atahualpa. Through bribery and conquests, the Inca rulers of the kingdom increase. It includes most of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, and parts of Argentina and Chile. This was the Inca Empire at its greatest extent in 1528: an area of approximately 950,000 ˛ KMA (which is about 2 ˝ times the size of Germany) with approximately twelve million people. The road network of 40,000 km surpassed even that of the Romans.
An entire people is being exterminated
An entire people is being exterminated
Pizarro and the Spanish soldiers took only 45 years to eliminate an entire people, hundreds of years and in that time there was a thriving civilization. It was estimated that 50 years after the Spanish arrived in Peru, the population of about seven million to 500,000 returns. Those not killed in the Europeans introduced diseases like smallpox and measles came as forced labor to death.
Only a few descendants still live
The living descendants of Inca periods since the destruction of their empire in a miserable existence in the highlands of the Andes. From the old culture is only the language, Quechua obtained remained. They live in some crops and some livestock, usually have no education or vocational training, and often do not speak Spanish, so they are socially excluded.
Only a few descendants still live
The living descendants of Inca periods since the destruction of their empire in a miserable existence in the highlands of the Andes. From the old culture is only the language, Quechua obtained remained. They live in some crops and some livestock, usually have no education or vocational training, and often do not speak Spanish, so they are socially excluded.
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