Atahualpa

Sí.

El conquistador del Perú, el que mandó a ejecutar a, a Atahualpa.

Ustedes recuerdan que los españoles llegaron justamente en medio de una época de muchos conflictos.

Estaban los hijos de Huayna Cápac, que eran Huáscar y, y Atahualpa.

Había como una guerra civil.

Al final prevaleció Atahualpa y Pizarro lo, lo encarceló, lo metió en cana y pidió un rescate que, según parece, es el rescate más alto en oro y plata de la historia.

Mmm.

Y Atahualpa aceptó pagar ese rescate, aquella vieja historia que llenaba un, un recinto enorme hasta cierta altura, etcétera, etcétera.

Uh, when he arrived, there was civil war.

The previous, uh, Sapa Inca, Huayna Capac, had died in 1525, and his two sons, Atahualpa and Huáscar, turned on each other.

Um, Atahualpa had just won the civil war, and he was proceeding to Cuzco, the Inca capital, to be formally, uh, enthroned as the new Sapa Inca.

And that's when word arrives to him that strangers have entered, uh, his realm.

And again, we're talking 168 men, uh, pushed into the Andes Mountains, and are seeking him out for reasons unknown.

Uh, he encounters them outside a place called, as you say, Cajamarca in 1532, and he sees not threat, but opportunity.

And just like Moctezuma II had been advised to not treat with these people, so does Atahualpa's envoy, who, who reports to them, "These are not men of good faith.

We can take them out.

After the death of this emperor, Juanacapac, his two sons fought over who would be the next Sapa Inca, the 13th Sapa Inca to rule the empire.

So his son's names were Huascar and Atahualpa.

Huascar was older, but that didn't matter.

The Inca didn't do succession like that.

Unfortunately, that son died around the same time as Huayna Capac, likely of the same disease as likely of smallpox, that came from Spain, and so there was no successor.

He apparently did not pick a backup.

So Huascar and Atahualpa both step up for the position, and they're fighting over who should get to be the next Sapa Inca.

Civil wars break out all over the country.

The full name of the city is Santiago de Guayaquil.

It is so called, first, because the conquest of the province was finished on the twenty-fifth of July, the day of St. James, 1533, and secondly, after Guayas, a feudatory cacique of Atahualpa.

It was created a city by Charles V, October 6, 1535.

It has suffered much in its subsequent history by fires and earthquakes, pirates and pestilence.

The fame of the region excited the cupidity of the Incas of Peru, and during the reign of Cacha, 1475, Huayna Capac the Great moved his army from Cuzco, and by the celebrated battle of Hatantaki, in which Cacha was killed, Quito was added to the realm of the Incas.

Huayna Capac made Quito his residence, and reigned there thirty-eight years, the most brilliant epoch in the annals of the city.

At his death his kingdom was divided, one son Atahualpa reigning in Quito, and Huascar at Cuzco.

Civil war ensued, in which the latter was defeated, and Atahualpa was chosen Inca of the whole empire, 1532.

The full name of the city is Santiago de Guayaquil.

It is so called, first, because the conquest of the province was finished on the twenty-fifth of July, the day of St. James, 1533, and secondly, after Guayas, a feudatory cacique of Atahualpa.

It was created a city by Charles V, October 6, 1535.

It has suffered much in its subsequent history by fires and earthquakes, pirates and pestilence.

The fame of the region excited the cupidity of the Incas of Peru, and during the reign of Cacha, 1475, Huayna Capac the Great moved his army from Cusco, and by the celebrated battle of Hatantaki, in which Cacha was killed, Quito was added to the realm of the Incas.

Huayna Capac made Quito his residence, and reigned there 38 years, the most brilliant epoch in the annals of the city.

At his death his kingdom was divided, one son Atahualpa reigning in Quito, and Huascar at Cusco.

Civil war ensued, in which the latter was defeated, and Atahualpa was chosen Inca of the whole empire, 1532.

The full name of the city is Santiago de Guayaquil.

It is so called, first, because the conquest of the province was finished on the twenty-fifth of July, the day of St. James, fifteen thirty-three, and secondly, after Guayas, a feudatory cacique of Atahualpa.

It was created a city by Charles V, October six, fifteen thirty-five.

It has suffered much in its subsequent history by fires and earthquakes, pirates and pestilence.

The fame of the region excited the cupidity of the Incas of Peru, and during the reign of Cacha, 1475, Huayna Capac the Great moved his army from Cuzco, and by the celebrated battle of Hatantaki, in which Cacha was killed, Quito was added to the realm of the Incas.

Huayna Capac made Quito his residence, and reigned there thirty-eight years, the most brilliant epoch in the annals of the city.

At his death his kingdom was divided, one son Atahualpa reigning in Quito, and Huascar at Cuzco.

Civil war ensued, in which the latter was defeated, and Atahualpa was chosen Inca of the whole empire, 1532.

I think he's a cousin or nephew of Cortes, gets sent down on an expedition to conquer Peru.

You and I talked about this on my, on my first episode, um, where, uh, Atahualpa, like, spits-

Yeah

... on the Bible and throws it on the floor, or throws it on the ground.

The Treasure of the Langanates.

In 1532, the Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, captured the Inca emperor, Atahualpa.

Right.

The emperor, trying to save his life, offered to fill a massive room once with gold and twice with silver in exchange for his freedom.

The ransom logistics were just staggering.

Gold was stripped from temples and monuments across the entire Incan Empire and marched across the Andes.

But Pizarro, being a ruthless and paranoid conqueror, executed Atahualpa before all the gold arrived.

He couldn't wait.