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Inca civil war

War between Huascar at Cuzco and his brother Atahualpa at Quito, ended in Atahualpa's favour as the Spaniards landed.

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War between Huascar at Cuzco and his brother Atahualpa at Quito, ended in Atahualpa’s favour as the Spaniards landed.

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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
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
But in a few days the news arrived that the Spaniards had landed, and there was great dismay.
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
there broke out among them a plague of smallpox, never seen among them before, which killed many Indians
on being placed in the sun, this Guainacapa died
he was in Quito, where his father begot him
Guainacapa being dead, they raised up as Lord Guascar his son, to whom the kingdom [rightfully] belonged, and who was in Cuzco
had the land not been divided by the wars between Guascar and Atabalipa, we would not have been able to enter or win the land unless we could gather one thousand Spaniards for the task

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