Leading a force of 106-foot soldiers, sixty-two horsemen, and a few cannon, Pizarro arrived at Cajamarca in November 1532. As the Spaniards approached, the residents deserted the city, fleeing to a nearby camp where Atahualpa awaited the foreigners with 30,000 of his best troops (Child, 1991).
Several hours after, the notion that Pizarro finally conquered Inca Empire happened. It was a seal not only the fate of Atahualpa, but of the Inca Empire itself. Pizarro's men fell upon the Incas in the central square of Cajamarca with their cannon, horses, wardogs, and Toledo steel. In less than two hours Atahualpa was a prisoner, and the cream of the empire's leadership was either dead or retreating in shock and confusion. Pizarro offered Atahualpa his freedom in exchange for the gold that would fill a sizable room up to the height of his outstretched hand. The order went out to the four corners of the Tawantinsuyu; soon officials returned to Cajamarca with llamas laden with the royal ransom.
After the gold was gathered, the Spaniards betrayed Atahualpa, arguing that he had...
Incan Civilization -- the collapse of an indigenous empire and the rise of a pre-Capitalist state Although they can provide powerful social networks for the individuals whom are enmeshed within them, individuals who are part of communally-based societies often owe more loyalty to their immediate family groups and kin structures of religion, rather than to than their nation-state or leader. This social and ideological fragmentation, as was characteristic of the indigenous
Architecture Naturally, the ruins of Cuzco and Machu Pichu of which some monuments and constructions are intact tells us that the Ican were master masons and builders. Large slabs of stone were put together to design these complex and beautiful structures. (Kleiner and Mamiya, 2006) What is also interesting is that there was no cement or mortar put between the stones to hold them in place. The massive stones fit together
Inca Empire, or Inka Empire, was the biggest empire in pre-Columbian America. The organizational, political and military center of the empire was situated in Cusco in modern-day Peru. "The Inca civilization came about from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century. From 1438 to 1533, the Incas used a variety of methods, from conquest to peaceful assimilation, to incorporate a large portion of western South America, centered
The Empire was really a large number of conquests, held together based on military alliances. This fact would actually come to be one of the reasons for the Incan downfall. The Incans had a rather sophisticated government, broken up into govered territories and an orderly kingdom, a system of mathematics, advanced pottery and textile expertise, and stone temples that were so expertly constructed that even today (without mortar) many
Four years later a vast Incan army rises up in revolt and attempt to overthrow the Spanish. It is probably this rebellion that resulted in the mass burials that were uncovered. It seems that despite the overwhelming odds, the Spanish hacked its way through the troops by using steel and horses to kill the Incan general. New forensics, though, give a different view of the battle. It seems that most
Inca and Spaniard: A Battle of Two Cultures It is rare to find one people placidly submitting to the will of another. Rarer still, is to meet with a people who gleefully welcome their conquerors, embrace their culture, way-of-life, and worldview. Yet, it is all too common to discover that those conquerors believe, or want to believe, that they have been welcomed with open arms. How many times in the course
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