HIST 4451 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Capture Of Valdivia, Gonzalo Jiménez De Quesada, Gonzalo Pizarro
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1528- pizarro decides to go to spain: charles v grants him the right of governorship to peru. All 13 men who were with pizarro on the island were made nobles: almagro and pizarro split again, pizarro got 200 leagues south of the santiago river. Atahualpa has just emerged victorious against huascar: atahualpa decides to set up an ambush when the spaniards ask to meet, battle of cajamarca: november 16, 1532- the spaniards capture atahualpa. Atahualpa says that he could fill two rooms with gold and silver. Spaniards hold a trial for atahualpa and find him guilty: they execute him, atahualpa"s generals then take cuzco. Manco capac became the puppet ruler for awhile. Sebastian de benalcazar: 1533-39- supposed to go south and into enemy territory: pays off almagro to leave, goes on chilean expedition: 1535-37. Inca revolt: 1536-37- incas revolted and besieged cuzco: manco capac rebelled against the spaniards, almagro is able to lift the siege on cuzco.
