When the ransom was delivered, Pizarro executed him anyway.) WithinĪ few decades the Incan, Aztec and Mayan civilizations had crumbled, and within a few centuries 95 percent of the native population of two entire continents had disappeared as well. (Atahualpa was captured alive and held for an enormous ransom of gold. The meeting was ostensibly friendly, but when Atahualpa scorned an offered Bible, the Spaniards attacked.īy nightfall, 7,000 Indians had been slaughtered, without the loss of a single Spanish soldier.
Was surrounded by some 80,000 Indian warriors Pizarro came accompanied only by a ragged group of 168 horsemen and foot soldiers.
16, 1532, the Incan Emperor Atahualpa greeted the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the Peruvian highland town of Cajamarca. The author dissects the complex reasons behind the lopsided course of global history By JAMES SHREEVE
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