Conquest

The first time the Incas encounter a white man was the year 1525 when the Incas where attacked by the the Chiriguano, a Native American Tribe from Paraguay. Aleixo Garcia, a Portuguese explorer, fought with the Chiriguano and was later murdered by his Indian allies. In 1832, Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro and 180 of his men arrived in Peru. At first, the Incas believed that Pizzaro was their creator god Viracocha. Pizarro launched a surprise attack on the Incas. Since the Inca Empire was already weakened before the Spanish explorers arrived by a series of civil wars, it was easy for the Spanish to conquer the Incas. Pizzaro later gain control of the Inca capitol, Cuzco, and took advantage of the wealth in the land to expand his Spanish rule even further. The leader of the Incas, Monco Capac II, escaped Cuzco to create a new Inca state and rebel against the Spanish rule. Small Inca kingdom that built in the difficult terrains at Vilcacabamba survived another 36 years. The Spanish were so determined to destroy the Inca Kingdom. In 1572, the Spanish finally captured the last Emperor of the Incas and beheaded him which ended the Inca dynasty.


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