UNIV 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3-4: Atahualpa, Smallpox
28 Oct 2016
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Europeans were now conquering more parts of the world where the native americans lived. The first encounter between the europeans and the native americans was between. Pizzaro represented the holy roman emperor and was from spain while atahuallpa represented the monarch and the largest state in the new world. Pizzaro was able to capture atahuallpa even though his army was 500 times smaller than the army of atahuallpa. Pizzaro entered cajamarca because he wanted to introduce the native americans to the religion/god of europe. Atahuallpa was not happy with this and rejected the idea, this ended up starting the war between the native americans and the europeans. The capturing of atahuallpa was extremely important for the europeans because after this many of the same events followed. It didn"t make sense for the capture to have succeeded because there were just too many native americans.
