12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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Pizarro - The Death of a Conqueror
Francisco pizarro was assassinated by a group of armed men loyal to one of his rivals in 1540. Pizarro had wanted to be a conqueror like julius caesar, and in the manner of his death, he got his wish. A mummified body found in the cathedral of cuzco was claimed to be the body of franciscopizarro but more modern analysis has shown that the body belongs to some one else. As the inca empire fractured and collapsed, its ruins were built over by the spanish,. Only those rare places that the europeans couldn't reach or didn't know about were preserved. One of these was the cloud out
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