Episode #137- What's the Deal with Guns, Germs, and Steel? (Part II)
Our Fake History
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The Spanish Conquistadors and the Inca Empire
Atawahalpa had no idea who the spanish were, what reputation preceded them and what their intentions were with his empire. He likely saw them as supplicants who had come to pay their fealty to the newly victorious sapainca. francisco pizarro, on the other hand, had hatched a daring and potentially suicidal plan. If he could capture the king, like cortez had done to montezuma of the mechica empire, would gain a key strategic and psychological advantage that would make a conquest possible. Here's how we're told the meeting went down.
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