12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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Atawalpa's Offer to the Spanish
Atawalpa regaled the spaniards with tales of the vast wealth of the inca empire. He especially emphasized the city of cuzco as the jewel in its he urged them to march there and loot it. In fact, he had himself been intending to march to cuzco and looting it. Atawalpa conveniently neglected to mention his own city of quito where he had been intending to move his imperial court. And here we can see that atowalpa's shock was already transforming into a kind of cold calculation.
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