Person

Atahualpa

Inca ruler taken prisoner at Cajamarca on 16 November 1532 and put to death in July 1533.

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How each side tells it

Inca ruler taken prisoner at Cajamarca on 16 November 1532 and put to death in July 1533.

Connections 6

Ransom of Atahualpa Nov 1532 offered a room of gold and silver, fearing he would be killed According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
Inca civil war held Quito and fought his half-brother Huascar According to Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua Primary record 2

Atahualpa taken at Cajamarca According to Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala Scholarship & press 3
Guaman Poma was born about 1550. He retells the meeting from the Spanish chronicles, from an Andean point of view.
Inca civil war According to Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua Primary record 2
Killing of Huascar According to Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua Primary record 2
In Pedro Pizarro's telling Atahualpa first wept to Pizarro, then, once assured of his own life, sent the order.
Ransom of Atahualpa According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1

Timeline 1 date

Nov 1532 Atahualpa intervened in Ransom of Atahualpa According to Francisco de Xerez

Proof 3 sources

Reports on the Discovery of Peru: I. Report of Francisco de Xeres, secretary to Francisco Pizarro (English translation by Clements R. Markham, Hakluyt Society, 1872), Hakluyt Society, London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1872. Primary record
I will give gold enough to fill a room twenty-two feet long and seventeen wide, up to a white line which is half way up the wall.
Atabaliba feared that the Spaniards would kill him, so he told the Governor, that he would give his captors a great quantity of gold and silver.
An Account of the Antiquities of Peru, by Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti-yamqui Salcamayhua, in Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas (English translation by Clements R. Markham, Hakluyt Society, 1873), Hakluyt Society, London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1873. Primary record
At that time Tupac Atahuallpa sent to Huascar Ynca, beseeching him to give him the title and nomination of Governor of the Provinces of Quito
This Atahuallpa sent messages to Antamarca with orders that Huascar should be killed
Guaman Poma de Ayala, The Conquest of Peru (excerpt from The First New Chronicle and Good Government, about 1615; early English translation by David Frye), David Frye, University of Michigan (web page, via the Internet Archive), 1999. Scholarship & press
Well, why doesn't it tell me? The book doesn't even talk to me!

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