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  2. Atahualpa - Wikipedia

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    Atahualpa (/ ˌ ɑː t ə ˈ w ɑː l p ə / ⓘ), also Atawallpa or Ataw Wallpa (c. 1502 – 26 July 1533), [2] [a] was the last effective Inca emperor, reigning from April 1532 until his capture and execution in July of the following year, as part of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.

  3. Battle of Cajamarca - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Cajamarca, also spelled Cajamalca [4] [5] (though many contemporary scholars prefer to call it the Massacre of Cajamarca), [6] [7] [8] was the ambush and seizure of the Incan ruler Atahualpa by a small Spanish force led by Francisco Pizarro, on November 16, 1532.

  4. Inca Civil War - Wikipedia

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    While holding Atahualpa in custody, Pizarro told him he would have Huáscar brought to Cajamarca and would determine which brother was the better Sapa Inca. In response, Atahualpa ordered Huáscar killed, allegedly by drowning. [32] Months later on August 29, 1533, Pizarro's men hanged Atahualpa at the plaza of Cajamarca. [33]

  5. Los funerales de Atahualpa - Wikipedia

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    The Funerals of Inca Atahualpa (Spanish: Los funerales de Atahualpa) is an academic painting by Luis Montero Cáceres that depicts the funeral of the Inca Atahualpa based on the descriptions of William H. Prescott. It was commissioned by the Peruvian government for the 1867 Exposition Universelle in Paris. [1]

  6. Ransom Room - Wikipedia

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    Atahualpa also offered to twice fill a smaller room with silver, asking for two months to do so. [ 2 ] : 183–184 The total collection of the gold, after being melted down into standard ingots, and before division amongst the Spaniards, amounted to 1,326,539 pesos de oro , worth 15,500,000 in 1847 U.S. dollars.

  7. Juan Santos Atahualpa - Wikipedia

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    Juan Santos Atahualpa Apu-Inca Huayna Capac [1] (c. 1710 – c. 1756) was the messianic leader of a successful indigenous rebellion in the Amazon Basin and Andean foothills against the Viceroyalty of Peru in the Spanish Empire. The Juan Santos Rebellion began in 1742 in the Gran Pajonal among the Asháninka people.

  8. Battle of Chimborazo - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Chimborazo was among the first confrontations in the War of the two brothers, a struggle between Huáscar and Atahualpa for power over the Inca Empire. Atahualpa won, having the more capable generals; he drove Huáscar back onto the defensive. The war resulted from a dispute over dynastic succession.

  9. Treasure of the Llanganatis - Wikipedia

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    Accounts of the amount of gold involved varies in different versions of the legend, but all agree that on the news of Atahualpa's death, he sent the porters East to areas that are to the present day uninhabited and later returned to Quito and hauled more treasures, including tiles of the temple of the Sun and possessions of the ñustas (temple ...