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12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud

Fall of Civilizations Podcast

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Pizarro and the Inca Empire

Only four or five of the largest houses and the walls of the fortress remained standing. Pizarro set out on the sixteenth of may 15 32 with a company of a hundred and 87 men, made up of 62 cavalry and a hundred and two foot soldiers. Ahead of them lay a journey of more than two thousand kilometers across harsh, arid deserts and snow capped mountain but the events that would lead to the final fall of the inca empire had now truly begun.

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