El rey inca atahualpa biography
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Atahualpa
Last Inca Emperor (ruled –)
This article is about the Inca emperor.
El rey inca atahualpa biography
For a mountain in the Cusco Region, Peru, see Atawallpa (Cusco). For the Bolivian province, see Atahuallpa Province. For the merchant ship, see Atahualpa (ship).
Atahualpa (), also Atawallpa or Ataw Wallpa (Quechua) (c.
&#;&#; 26 July ),[2][a] was the last effective Inca emperor, reigning from April until his capture and execution in July of the following year, as part of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.
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Biography
Atahualpa was the son of the emperor Huayna Cápac, who died around along with his successor, Ninan Cuyochi, in a smallpox epidemic. Atahualpa initially accepted his half-brother Huáscar as the new emperor, who in turn appointed him as governor of Quito in the north of the empire.
The uneasy peace between them deteriorated over the next few years. From to , they contested the succession in the Inca Civil War, in which Atahualpa's forces defeated and