12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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Atawelpa, the Thirteenth Sapa Inca
Atawalpa was now well on his way to becoming the thirteenth sapa inca. He made the astonishing announcement that he intended to move the inca capital from its ancestral heart land of cuzco to his own home town of quito. But events in the world outside had already overtaken him and made his victory over his brother all irrelevant. A shadow was now stretching over all the lands of south america. Soon it would grow to cover the andes. Within only a matter of days, they would encounter another power that would outmatch them in technological sophistication. The inca didn't know it yet, but this power had already landed on their continent, and
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