The old slaver -- The conquest of paradise -- The capture of the sun god -- Cuzco -- The siege of the holy city -- The death of Almagro -- The frontiers of New Castile -- Marqués of the Indies -- The ...
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📜 The Inca Empire: A God Taken Hostage - Atahualpa vs. Francisco Pizarro. The Incas had never seen horses before, and it wasn't long before the Spanish had captured Atahualpa as a hostage for gold ...
Cajamarca, Peru — On a busy Peruvian street, crammed between a video store and a restaurant, is a narrow, stone storefront with the words “ransom room” carved above the door in Spanish. Inside, in a ...
The Royal Hunt of the Sun, by Peter Shaffer. A huge heraldic signet bearing a black cross is pinned with ascetic severity to the rear wall of the stage. Suddenly, it begins to open like secret ...
Gonzalo Pizarro was a Spanish Conquistador and a half-brother to Francisco Pizarro. His life is a story of controversy and conquest. Gonzalo Pizarro was born in 1510 in Spain and his life was marked ...
If you stand at a certain spot inside the newest park in this capital city and crane your neck skyward, you might see two things: an imposing bronze statue of a conquistador astride a horse, and the ...
Editor - In his review of my book "The Last Days of the Incas" (July 8), Noam Lupu states that "Kim MacQuarrie... relies on the accounts [of the seizure of the Incan ...
C-SPAN is testing some improvements to our website and we'd like to ask for your help. Please click here to try out our new video viewing page (you can switch back at any time). Kim MacQuarrie talked ...
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