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In November 1532 the Inca ruler Atahualpa, fresh from winning a civil war, met fewer than 200 Spaniards at Cajamarca and was taken prisoner. Students explore why the empire was so vulnerable, and how an Andean artist later drew the conquest.
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- Explain how the Inca civil war between Atahualpa and Huáscar weakened the empire.
- Describe the events at Cajamarca in 1532 and the ransom that followed.
- Use an Andean source, the drawings of Guaman Poma, to see the conquest from an Indigenous point of view.