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=**THE FALL OF THE INCAS**= =**﻿Inca After Contact**= =Questions=

The Spanish first arrived in the Inca borders between 1526-1527 when Francisco Pizarro arrived at Tumbes. After returning to Spain 1528, Pizarro is granted a license to conquer Peru by the Queen of Spain. Pizarro returns to the Incas in 1532 to capture Atahualpa in the battle fo Cajamarca. Atahualpa was wary of the Spaniards as they thought they were gods but they also heard from others that they behaved like humans. Atahulpa tried to bribe Pizarro to leave with presents but when he wouldn't go, many say Atahualpa agreed to meet Pizarro voluntarily. Pizarro planned his attack for the next day placing his men around stratigically and using European weapons such as cannons, firearms and his horses. Although Atahualpa had more men than Pizarro, they were unarmed and were defeated with many killed. Atahualpa was taken as prisoner and held for ransom. In the end, even though he gave them ransom for many years, he was still put to death. From there the colonization of South America began and Spanish culture began to take over the Inca culture.
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Bower, Bert, and Jim Lobdell. //History Alive!// Palo Alto, CA: Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2005. Print, pg 38Cura Olcollo 0-382 "Welcome to InfoPeru.com." // Travel Peru Travel //. Web. 13 May 2011. What do we know about the first encounter with Europeans? In general, the first encounters with the Europeans were cautious. The native people looked at the Europeans as gods as they looked different and had unusual animals such as horses, weapons and large ships.The Inca King tried to bribe the Europeans with gifts to get them to go away but it did not work. They also wanted to capture the Europeans to try to burn them. The Europeans wanted to come and conqure the Incas. They had many advantages expecially a more skilled army. They also caused devistation by bringing their diseases which wiped out many of the Inca population very quickly.

Bower, Bert, and Jim Lobdell. //History Alive!// Palo Alto, CA: Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2005. Print, pg 380-382 Inca Empire IV. Spanish Conquest." // Angelfire: Welcome to Angelfire //. Web. 13 May 2011 Did they resist or welcome the Europeans? The Incas did not want the Europeans on their lands. They tried hard to bribe them but they were also curious if they were gods and if they were good gods or bad gods. If they were the good gods they would want them to stay but not if they were bad gods. When they realized they were just men, they tried to capture them but by then it was too late as the Spanish army was much better than them.

Bower, Bert, and Jim Lobdell. //History Alive!// Palo Alto, CA: Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2005. Print, pg 380-382

How did European contact change the society within 10 years/within 100 years? They caused the society to change by causing the empire to collapse. The Spanish acted friendly in the beginning and then captured the leader Atahualpa. They demanded a ransom and even though the Incas paid it, the Spanish still killed him the year after. Without their leader, the Incas empire collapsed. It took less than 10 years for all this to happen. The Spanish quickly began their colonization. There were rebellions but the Incas were not able to organize themselves or have the weapons needed to fight the Spanish army. Smallpox was also a deadly disease that changed the population. Inca towns were destroyed and Spanish towns were built on top of them. In 1535 Pizarro establishes the city of Lima which became the administrative and political center. The Spanish also spread Christianity to the people. They wanted to convert them and it only took a generation to do so. It was total devistation for the Incas once the Spanish arrived.

Bower, Bert, and Jim Lobdell. //History Alive!// Palo Alto, CA: Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2005. Print, pg 380-382

Where are these people today? What remains of this culture? They are still in the same area( around Lake Titicaca ) but some have moved. Most people still live on the west side of South America. The culture still is reflected in the peoples ways but there are new aspects that the people carry. Llamas C ritical to the success of the Inca Empire nearly 500 years ago, llamas are still important to Peruvians today. Although modern transportation has taken much of the need for pack animals away, the surefooted llamas are still used as beasts of burden in some remote areas. They are also raised for their wool.What remains of the Inca legacy is limited, as the conquistadors plundered what they could of Inca treasures and in so doing, dismantled the many structures painstakingly built by Inca craftsmen to house the precious metals.

// Pringle, Heather. "Genius of the Inca." Web., People to Care About the Planet Since 1888 //. Web. 09 May 2011. NOVA Online | Ice Mummies of the Inca | Lost Empire (3)." //PBS: Public Broadcasting Service// =Incas=

Beginning of the Empire
"The **Inca civilization** (or **Inka**) began as a tribe in the Cuzco area, where the legendary first Sapa Inca, Manco Capac, founded the Kingdom of Cuzco around 1200. Under the leadership of the descendants of Manco Capac, the Inca state grew to absorb other Andean communities. In 1442, the Incas began a far-reaching expansion under the command of Pachacutec. He founded the Inca Empire or **Tahuantinsuyo**, which became the largest empire in pre-Columbian America." "Inca Civilization." //Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia//. Web. 04 May 2011. <[]>.

Spainards meet the Incas
December 27, 1530 Pizarro's third expedition sails from Panama. -- 1531 Pizarro lands on coast of Ecuador. He arrives in Tumbes in January to find it in ruins, a casualty of Inca civil war. -- September 24, 1532 Pizarro marches out of San Miguel with 102 infantry and 62 horsemen and heads south, reaching Sana on November 6th - May 16, 1532 Pizarro leaves Tumbes to explore northwest Peru. Hernando de Soto joins the expedition. - November 8, 1532 Pizarro turn inland. Marching into the Andes. He is met by an adviser to emperor Atahualpa, who guides the Spaniards though the mountains to the emperors camp. - August 11, 1533 Pizarro sets out from Cajamarca for Cusco, the capital city, with new Inca emperor Tupac Huallpa under armed escort. -- October 12- November 14, 1533 Spanish forces fight Inca warriors in towns along the route to Cusco and, finally, at a pass just above the capital city, during the march, Tupac Huallpa dies of illness. -- November 15, 1533 Pizarro takes the Inca capital city of Cusco. Manco, a son of Huanya Capac. Is installed as the new Inca emperor. With the capture of Cusco, the main cities of the Inca Empire were under Spanish control. The viceroyalty of Peru quickly became an important center of Spain's colonial empire.

Aronson, Marc, and John W. Glenn. //The World Made New: Why the Age of Exploration Happened & How It Changed the World//. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2007. 28-29 "Spanish Conquest" //Rediscover Machu Pichu.// Web. 09 May 2011. [] =﻿**Pictures**=

The Wrecked civilization today www2.truman.edu

An idol that the Inca Worship curlyfries.wikispaces.com

The God the Incas worship tmay2016.blogspot.com Map of Incan Empire

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