November 15th 15:32 cajamarca Hernando
DeSoto has just made official contact
with Otto Alba and it is not going well
at who Alba's first words are a rebuke I
am told you have killed my people and
put them in Chains
he says holding up an iron collar as
proof de Soto denies this truth and
atahuallpa invites them to eat
the Spaniards declined food but agreed
to sit and drink chicha beer they're
sloppy and spill the drink a deep
affront suddenly inspired de Soto offers
a display of horsemanship
in return he Canter's around the square
cutting and prancing on his strange
Beast before charging straight at the
Emperor 20 feet 1510 he rains in so
close that the horses breath flutters
the tassels on all to Elpis royal
headband at who Elpis stands impassive
and the guards who broke ranks to defend
him are immediately executed true Incas
do not flinch
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the next day atahuallpa visits Pizarro
at de Soto's invitation the Spanish have
camped in an empty City Square
upon his arrival men sweep the ground
before him soldiers carry ceremonial
axes and priests and dancers sing
praises atahuallpa himself rides in on a
towering litter carried by 80 men gold
plates on its surface reflecting the
dying Sun macaw feathers ripple in the
andean wind he has nothing to fear there
are only a hundred and sixty-eight of
these foreigners and he has 8,000 in his
unarmed party
not to mention 80,000 soldiers waiting
in the hills but no one is here to meet
them the square is empty save for the
translator from the day before and a man
in long robes this translator is not
Incan some low-class sailor from the
northern coastal villages who barely
speaks Quechua and outer wall pass
aspects this man's grasp of Spanish is
just basic but from what he makes out
this robed man is a priest he has come
from a great king and wants the Inca to
accept his God the priest waives some
kind of box claiming that it contains
the word of the Scot intrigued at who
ALPA asks to see it he listens to the
box but hears nothing and slowly with
great difficulty he manages to open it
but he finds no divine voice inside only
sheets of cloth covered in patterns
angry at this deception he tosses the
box on the ground the priest runs
towards the buildings screaming about
his God being Dishonored Thunder cracks
and the ranks near the Emperor erupt in
a fountain of gore more bangs and Jets
of smoke from the buildings around them
an ambush forty infantry in their metal
shirts cut off the exits then sixty men
on monstrous beasts some covered head to
foot in metal charged the back of the
Inca ranks what weapons the Inca carry
our ceremonial the few soldiers carrying
real slings and axes find the foreign
armor impervious to their weapons
Pinkins have never seen horses and have
no anti cavalry tactics there's no
escape
within minutes hundreds die by Spanish
blades or fall crushed under iron
horseshoes one group of panicked
attendants surged against an adobe wall
so densely that it collapses spilling
fleeing men into the hills
these few escaped but seven thousand
others died in the massacre at Alba
tries to escape to his litter but too
many of the bearers are dead and the
Spanish are stripping the gold plates
from its surface it tilts and false a
soldier on horseback towers above him
huge suddenly his sword flashes down but
a man throws himself between the Emperor
and the blade and takes the blow on his
own arm it's Francisco Pizarro and this
cut will be the only wound the
conquistadors take in what they will
later call a battle Pizarro now holds
the Inca Emperor which is good for the
conquistadors because despite the fact
that he has cannons armored horses and
muskets he still only has a hundred and
sixty-eight men to defend cajamarca
against eighty thousand it was otto Alba
realized a hostage situation these
Spanish wanted gold and gold was
something the Emperor could provide so
he walked into a room that measured 20
feet by 15 feet and made a chalk line
eight feet up the wall if you release me
he said I will fill this room with
treasure twice over with silver and once
with gold it would take time but it
could be done
Bizzaro agreed not only because he
wanted the gold though yeah he wanted
that gold pretty bad but because of Paz
and hostilities let him send to Panama
for reinforcements but this just
happened to be Otto Elpis plan - for
eight months as the treasure flowed in
he continued running his empire through
intermediaries slowly he organized an
army to drive the Spanish out once he
was released but he ran into a problem
the half of the empire that had back to
osku in the Civil War perceived the
Spanish as liberators yet this
perception did not last long as Pizarro
toured the country under royal
protection his disgust with the Incan
religion became ever more clear in one
instance he ordered his men to climb the
temple of the earthquake God and throw
the gods image off the top followed by
all of the priests when Otto ALPA heard
about this his reaction was strong and
immediate he loved it yeah
you see the temple had issued a prophecy
that hoasca would win the Civil War and
he was glad to see his brother's
followers cast down in fact his captive
brother had met with Pizarro and offered
the Spanish and Alliance if they'd kill
atahuallpa free him and install him as
ruler instead but otto ALPA nipped that
in the bud as well by having huis car
assassinated meanwhile outer wall Poe
befriended his captors learned to play
chess with De Soto and began dining with
Pizarro the conquistadors for their part
became fascinated with the Inca ruler
with his fine bat skin clothes many
wives and noble bearing though Pizarro
never dreamed of actually letting out
who Albergo of course he was the only
thing stopping them from being
completely wiped out but he had become
attached to the man he wanted to take
him to Spain as a royal hostage but
factions began to emerge in the Spanish
ranks once the ransom was collected and
divided his arrows expedition partner
Diego de almagro was unhappy with this
men's take moreover alum agro was
distrustful of atahuallpa and argued for
his immediate execution surrounded and
cut off Pizarro could not afford
dissension in the ranks so when
presented with evidence that alto Alpo
was raising armies his ro convened a
trial and convicted the Inca Emperor of
treason against the Spanish crown so he
had a choice
burn at the stake or convert to
Christianity and be strangled with a
cord atahuallpa who wanted to keep his
body whole so he could live out eternity
as a venerated mummy chose the cross and
the court killing the Emperor was a bad
idea
with atahuallpa dead chaos descended
even after the Spanish had subdued the
country they would face between 20 to 30
rebellions in the first two decades of
their rule they installed two puppet
Emperor's the first dying of smallpox
before they even got him to Cusco and
the second shared power for three years
before escaping to found a meal Inca
state in the Peruvian Amazon where Sapa
Incas would reign for four more decades
twice rebel armies besieged Cusco and
once even in the new Spanish capital of
Lima but the Incan resistance could not
be sustained
the Spanish learned that if they just
held out long enough
Incan armies would dissolve once the
crops needed to be brought in not to
mention the Incan practice of Jenner
leading from the front was really not
practical when facing an enemy armed
with cannons and firearms Spanish
colonial government went about
destroying Incan culture through forced
conversion and cultural destruction they
razed temples and built churches on
their foundations they melted down every
gold object remaking them into altar
pieces or sending them back to Spain and
they confiscated and buried the royal
mummies but Pizarro and his men had
their own problems the Spanish crown was
horrified at atahuallpa execution
Pizarro and his men were technically
just peasants after all and under no
circumstances could they allow a bunch
of peasants to commit regicide who cared
if atahuallpa was a foreign Idol
worshipper killing a king set a bad
precedent and also Pizarro's
relationship with almagro deteriorated
further the Spanish crown had made
almagro the governor of southern Peru
and Pizarro the governor of northern
Peru but was vague about who truly
governed Cusco soon the conquistadors
were fighting with each other as well as
the Incas and when Pizarro finally
killed his rival the man's son took up
the feud eight years after conquering
Peru
20 men stormed Pizarro's mansion in Lima
as friends died to protect him
the old man managed to find a sword and
half buckle his breastplate he killed
the first two attackers but when he ran
1/3 through the flesh trapped his blade
and the assassins fell on him pasado the
man who toppled an empire for gold and
Christianity and whose conquest killed
millions through disease starvation and
violence died on the floor of his
governor's mansion calling for Jesus and
drawing a cross in his own blood the
Inca survived him because ironically the
Spanish repression had rehabilitated the
Incas reputation groups who chafed under
Incan rule began looking back on it as a
golden age and told stories of Inca folk
heroes standing up for the people in
fact if you visit Peru today you'll see
the Inca legacy in textiles cultural
recreations political movements and even
bottles of soda their monuments their
roads and their history are a source of
pride even in areas where they were
originally considered foreign occupiers
once
rooo had belonged to the Incas but today
the Incas belonged to Peru see you next
time everybody
special thanks to educational to your
patrons Ahmed Zayat Turk and Joseph
plane
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