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Atahualpa
Last Inca emperor, captured by Pizarro just after winning a civil war against his brother Huáscar, and executed in 1533
Where they went
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Spain’s Francisco Pizarro entered an Inca Empire divided by civil war, captured and executed the emperor Atahualpa at Cajamarca, and took the capital Cusco, bringing down the empire.
Related works
- Book: Guns, Germs, and SteelBook · 1997 · Jared Diamond
People who appear alongside
- Francisco Pizarro1541
Spanish conquistador who captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa at Cajamarca in 1532, conquered the Inca Empire and founded Lima
- Charles V1500 – 1558
King of Spain (as Charles I) and Holy Roman Emperor, who sponsored Magellan’s voyage and under whom the Aztec and Inca empires were conquered
Themes this person appears in
- Turkic-Islamic Empires and Other Civilizations1000 – 1533
From the Ghaznavid raids on India to the Mughal Empire and Suleiman I — five centuries in which Turkic-led Islamic empires took western Asia and India, while Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas raised civilisations of their own
- The Age of Discovery1415 – 1600
From Ceuta to the Manila galleons — two centuries in which European ships crossed the oceans and bound the world together by sea