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The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie [MacQuarrie, Kim] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Last Days of the Incas about?
The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers. In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca. Despite being outnumbered by more than two hundred to one, the Spaniards prevailed—due largely to their horses, their steel armor and swords, and their tactic of surprise. They captured and imprisoned Atahualpa. Although the Inca emperor paid an enormous ransom in gold, the Spaniards executed him anyway. The following year, the Spaniards seized the Inca capital of Cuzco, completing their conquest of the largest native empire the New World has ever known. Peru was now a Spanish colony, and the conquistadors were wealthy beyond their wildest drea
Who reads The Last Days of the Incas?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kim MacQuarrie [MacQuarrie, Kim]
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780743260503
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Latin American History, Travel
- Rating
- 4.13 / 5 (2,724 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14