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See also:ATAHUALLPA (atahu, See also:Lat. virtus, and allpa, sweet) , " the last of the Incas " (or Yncas) of See also:Peru, was the son of the ruler Huayna Capac, by Pacha, the daughter of the conquered See also:sovereign of See also:Quito. His See also:brother Huascar succeeded Huayna Capac in 1527; for, as Atahuallpa was not descended on both sides from the See also:line of Incas, Peruvian See also:law considered him illegitimate. He obtained, however, the See also:kingdom of Quito. A jealous feeling soon sprang up between him and Huascar, who insisted that Quito should be held as a dependent See also:province of his See also:empire. A See also:civil See also:war See also:broke out between the See also:brothers, and, about the See also:time when the See also:Spanish conqueror See also:Pizarro was beginning to move inland from the See also:town of See also:San See also:Miguel, Huascar had been defeated and thrown into See also:prison, and Atahuallpa had become Inca. Pizarro set out in See also:September 1532, and made for Caxamarca, where the Inca was. Messengers passed frequently between them, and the Spaniards on their See also: To this extraordinary harangue, which from its own nature and the faults of the interpreter must have been completely unintelligible, the Inca at first returned a very temperate See also:answer. He pointed out what seemed to him certain difficulties in the Christian See also:religion, and declined to accept as monarch of his dominions this Charles, of whom he knew nothing. He then took a See also:bible from the priest's hands, and, after looking at it, threw it violently from him, and began a more impassioned speech, in which he exposed the designs of the Spaniards, and upbraided them with the cruelties they had perpetrated. The priest retired, and Pizarro at once gave the See also:signal for attack. The Spaniards rushed out suddenly, and the Peruvians, astonished and defenceless, were cut down in hundreds. Pizarro himself seized the Inca, and in endeavouring to preserve him alive, received, accidentally, on his See also:hand the only See also:wound inflicted that day on a Spaniard. Atahuallpa, thus treacherously captured, offered an enormous sum of See also:money as a See also:ransom, and fulfilled his engagement; but Pizarro still detained him, until the Spaniards should have arrived in sufficient See also:numbers to secure the See also:country. While in captivity, Atahuallpa gave See also:secret orders for the assassination of his brother Huascar, and also endeavoured to raise an See also:army to expel the invaders. His plans were betrayed, and Pizarro at once brought him to trial. He was condemned to See also:death, and, as being an idolator, to death by See also:fire. Atahuallpa, however, professed himself a Christian, received See also:baptism, and his See also:sentence was then altered into death by strangulation (See also:August 29, 1533). His See also:body was afterwards burned, and the ashes conveyed to Quito. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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