Atahualpa

Before Huayna Capac 's death, it was said that over 200,000 natives had died of the same illness in Quinto, leading to his contraction of the disease while he was there. This rapid spread of smallpox in the Inca empire also quickly killed his designated heirs, creating a civil war amongst the destruction of the epidemic just in time for the arrival of the Europeans. The loss of a stable power in the Inca empire led to its fall due to Pizzaro’s military knowledge and ability to manipulate the rival brothers (Atahualpa and Huascar) fighting for the right to rule the Inca empire against each other and eventually conquest the empire for Spain. As with the Aztecs, the combination of indigenous allies and smallpox helped in making Tenochtitlan and the Aztec Empire itself succumb to Spanish power. After the native uprising in Tenochtitlan and the escape named Noche Triste, the Spanish were quite exposed. The Aztecs regrouped with the new leader Cuitlahuac, gaining some success over the Spanish when smallpox hit. Cuitlahuac was said to not even have ruled for forty days before succumbing to the disease along with his successor Cuitlahuatzin whom only ruled eighty days. Along with the Aztec rulers, the estimates of epidemic mortality in the Aztec Empire are…

The Inca Empire, located in Peru, was the last standing empire in South America. The Incas were South American Indians also known as natives to the land. At the time their capital was called Cuzco, which lasted for three hundred years. Cuzco is also a modern city in Peru. After the rule of their fourth emperor, many tribes settled in the Andes Mountains. Each tribe was individually conquered, requiring them to adapt to the Inca ways of life. After the Indian tribes converted, they combined…

Upon the bereavement of “Inca ruler Wayna Qhapaq in 1528 CE, two of his sons, Waskar and Atahualpa, battled in a damaging six-year civil war for control of their father’s empire.” (Cartwright, 2011). This was a devastating blow to the young empire and left many of its tribes battling against each other. The harsh laws of the Incan tribes had played vital roles in the tribes turning against one another. The Inca’s would struggle even more so when the Spanish arrived the Incas were hit with a…

Francisco Pizarro was in need of a way to earn money. He went to the king and queen, who offered him money to make an expedition in 1532 to Peru, where he founded Lima. Him and his crew of over 500 men traveled to Peru to claim land. It took them over 7 months to reach Peru, and they found an interesting surprise. They were not expecting a colony of Incas and their leader, Atahualpa. Francisco Pizarro hadn’t given any orders as to what to do, and his crew had already sprung into action on what…

Atahualpa did not hold the Bible to his ear, he threw it away from him five or six steps. Father Friar Vicente advanced, with a cross in one hand and the Bible in the other, to where Atahualpa was, and addressed him through an interpreter: “I’m a priest of God, and I teach Christians the things of God, and I come to teach you. I teach what God says to us in this Book.” Atahualpa asked for the Book, so that he might look at it and the priest gave it to him closed. Atahualpa did not know how to…

smallpox. This left him to the decision of who to leave the throne to. He had two sons he could choose from. His first son was Huascar. He is a legit son. That means he should be heir to throne. King Wayna had his second son with another woman. His name was Atahualpa. He was illegit, which means he shouldn’t get the throne. However, King Wayna liked Atahualpa better than Huascar so he left the throne to Atahualpa. This caused anger within Huascar. Huascar created a civil war between himself and…

and managed to obtain a task from Emperor Charles V. Pizarro was to conquer the southern territory and establish a new Spanish territory there. In 1532, joined by his brothers, Pizarro overtook the Inca leader Atahualpa and conquered Peru. Three years later, he founded the new capital city of Lima. Pizarro had heard rumors of a land in South America that was full of gold and other treasures. He wanted to explore the land. He made two initial expeditions into the land. The first expedition took…

advanced weapons. The Incas still had wooden or stone weapons (Cartwright 2010). The Spanish had steel and they rode on horses which gave them a huge advantage over the Incas. The Incas had also never fought someone with more power than them. The Incas had conquered many civilizations but all of them were of lesser power and knowledge than the Incas (Cartwright 2010). When the Spanish came they were shocked by the power of the weapons that the Spanish had. The Spanish used the element of…

control of peru and in the process kill thousands of natives and killed their leader Atahualpa. Although there was plausible evidence that Francisco Pizarro was motivated to conquer the Inca because his king ordered him, the primary motives were greed for wealth and power. King Charles I was proclaimed in the trial to have forced Pizarro to commit…

Pizarro was interested in Peru’s Inca empire, which was reputed to have even more riches than the Aztecs. Pizarro made it to Peru in 1532, just after the Incan ruler Atahualpa had won the throne from his brother in a bloody civil war. Atahualpa declined to become a Spanish vasal or convert to Christianity. With a reply, Pizarro, helped by Indian allies, captured him and killed thousands of Inca. The Spanish wanted a large amount of money for the king. The inca paid it, but the Spanish killed…