Person
Huascar
Inca ruler at Cuzco whom Atahualpa's captains took prisoner; Spanish and Andean writers say Atahualpa had him killed.
- Also known as
- Huáscar, Guascar
- Wikidata
- Q213749
According to Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua
- intervened in Inca civil war
- involved in Inca civil war
According to Pedro Pizarro
- involved in Killing of Huascar
Inca ruler at Cuzco whom Atahualpa’s captains took prisoner; Spanish and Andean writers say Atahualpa had him killed.
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intervened in
- Inca civil war ruled in Cuzco and was taken prisoner According to Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua Primary record 1
involved in
- Inca civil war According to Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua Primary record 1
- Killing of Huascar According to Pedro Pizarro Primary record 2
Proof 2 sources
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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
But in a few days the news arrived that the Spaniards had landed, and there was great dismay.
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Relation of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru by Pedro Pizarro, volume 1 (English translation by Philip Ainsworth Means, Cortes Society, 1921), The Cortes Society, New York (scan on the Internet Archive), 1921.
Primary record
sent a messenger to Challicuchima [with orders] that Guascar be slain at once, and so they killed him at Guambos
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