The Execution of Atahualpa

from Same Day, Different Century · host Zach Ipsen

On July 26, 1533, Spanish conquistadors executed Atahualpa, the captive ruler of the Inca empire, in the square at Cajamarca. Months earlier, fewer than two hundred Spaniards had ambushed him and seized the god-king through whom the whole empire of Tawantinsuyu ran. He tried to buy his life with one of the largest ransoms ever recorded, a room filled with gold and two more with silver.Send me a text!Support the show

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