The Inca's Last Stand (Replay)

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🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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November 16, 1532. Atahualpa, the king of the Inca Empire, marches towards the city of Cajamarca in modern-day Peru, surrounded by 80,000 soldiers. Once he arrives, Atahualpa expects the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro to surrender in the town square. But Pizarro has a plan of his own. With just 168 men, he will unleash a trap that destroys the Inca Empire, and brings thousands of years of indigenous rule to a violent end. What was happening in the Andes before Pizarro arrived that allowed this to take place? And when history is written by the victors, how do we know what’s really true?

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0:00.0	The History Channel, original podcast.
0:03.8	History this week.
0:05.7	November 16th, 1532.
0:09.3	I'm Sally Helm.
0:14.0	Atawala rides on a throne decorated with gold and feathers.
0:19.3	This is something of a victory march.
0:22.3	He's being carried by his serpents.
0:24.4	His lords all around him are being carried to
0:27.0	on less fancy litters, not so many feathers.
0:30.2	They're all wearing gold crowns and ornate pendants,
0:33.7	and they're surrounded by soldiers, 80,000 of them.
0:41.3	Atawala is the ruler of the Inca Empire,
0:44.3	an area that once stretched from what is now Argentina
0:47.2	and Chile to southern Colombia.
0:49.6	His title is actually the Inca.
0:52.3	He came to power pretty recently after a brutal,
0:55.2	bloody fight with his brother.
0:57.5	It led to a civil war that Atawala won.
1:00.8	And today, he's come to the highland town of Caja Marca
1:05.0	to meet with a small crew of Spaniards
1:07.6	who have sailed across the world on a mission of plunder
1:10.9	and conquest.
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