The Execution of the Last Inca Emperor
History Daily
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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August 29, 1533. Atahuallpa, the 13th emperor of the Incas, dies by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro’s Spanish conquistadors.
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| 0:00.0 | There are more ways than ever to listen to History Daily ad-free. |
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| 0:06.0 | As a member of NoisorPlus at noisor.com or in Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:10.6 | or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at IntoHistory.com. It's November 16, 1532, in the town of Kahamarka in the Inca Empire, a region the Spanish called Peru. |
| 0:33.9 | Conquistador Francisco Pizarro presses his back against the cool stone of a long, low building. |
| 0:39.3 | Shifting his weight, he peers out through a window. |
| 0:42.3 | The town square beyond is quiet, but he knows it won't stay that way much longer. |
| 0:47.3 | Francisco is an ambitious man in his mid-50s. |
| 0:50.3 | Tall and well-built with a full beard streak with gray, he's risen from relative obscurity to become one of the richest men in the world. |
| 0:58.5 | Now he's come deep into the Andes Mountains to conquer the Inca Empire, |
| 1:02.5 | the greatest military power in the new world. |
| 1:05.4 | Through intermediaries, Francisco has agreed to meet the emperor, the Sapa Inca, here in town. |
| 1:10.8 | But he has more than just words in store for him. |
| 1:12.6 | Francisco is plotting an ambush. |
| 1:15.6 | The stone beneath his feet rumbles. |
| 1:17.6 | A large force is approaching. |
| 1:20.6 | Francisco has just 168 soldiers at his command, and it sounds like they will soon be facing an army numbering several thousand. |
| 1:28.3 | But Francisco hopes to surprise the Inca and overwhelm them with weapons they've never seen before. |
| 1:33.6 | Steel, horses, and guns. |
| 1:36.2 | Francisco looks over at his men. |
| 1:38.3 | A third of his small force is with him. |
| 1:40.8 | The rest, his cavalry, is concealed in other buildings around the square. |
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