12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The End of Days
The inca emperor at the time of the half millennium was a man named wena kapak, whose name meant the young, mighty one. He soon became hell bent on subjugating the tropical northern territory of what is now ecuador and columbia. It's possible that while leading his armies through the forests of columbia he may have heard rumors about mysterious power growing further to the north. And perhaps it's on his death bed that those rumors came back to him bot the strangers who had been sighted far in the north. One inca chronicler, garcilaso inca de la vega, recorded what were supposedly the dying words of king weno cap
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