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in the 16th century the Spanish

conquistadors tore into the new world of

South

America Francisco pizzaro an illiterate

peasant soldier who conquered Peru was

perhaps the most ruthless of these

Soldiers of

Fortune in 15 years he and his followers

killed thousands of indigenous Indians

wiped out the ruling incom monarchy and

enslaved an

Empire these Acts were committed in

pursuit of power gold and religious

imperialism few men have changed the

course of world history in such a

violent ruthless

manner Francisco pizaro was born in 1478

in the poor rural Spanish community of

truo his peasant mother abandoned him on

the steps of the local

church he was is the illegitimate son of

Captain Gonzalo pizzaro who was

smalltime Gentry man from Spanish city

of

tro in his youth pizzaro showed little

promise unable to read or write

Francisco became a swin

herd by the early 16th century the

Spanish conquest of the new world was

underway ordinary men were bringing

great fortunes back home

the harsh conditions in rural Spain

produced tough brutal mercenaries who

were prepared to travel overseas and

risk their lives in search of

Glory the one thing which set the

imagination of men like pitaro going was

seeing in South Western Spain not just

Indians who were brought back but gold

objects and they IM immediately saw an

opportunity to get rich quick I

suppose at the age of 23 pitaro left tro

for the new world he had become a

soldier of

fortune in 1501 he arrived in the

Americas and joined a series of

expeditions to find land and

gold the conquistadors were waging a

brutal merciless war against vulnerable

Indian

natives in the name of the Spanish crown

and the Catholic

church this wasn't Renaissance Europe it

was a place where men killed their

brothers for a gold

ingot for Mercenaries like pizaro

unimaginable power and wealth were on

offer I think he was like anybody there

like any young soldier with the license

to do anything they wanted and for um

young soldiers at that time that could

kill rape and did any other atrocity

that was part of War pizaro joined up

with another Soldier Diego di Almagro

and the pair earned a reputation for

their ruthlessness in dealing with the

natives in Panama pisaro and Almagro had

a

living and that the main uh income of

this living came from their ability to

capture Runway Indians so they their

first Fame was as those two guys that

are able to catch any Indians at any

cost once captured Indians were treated

like

animals pitaro excelled at torture he

was known for burning the eyes of Indian

chiefs to get their gold exemplary

punishments cruel punishments like

cutting off hands and feet cutting off

noses cutting off ears were often

resorted

to by 1522 pizzaro was

44 he had a comfortable life in Panama

but wanted much more he'd seen how other

ruthless adventurers had plundered

massive

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fortunes a fellow Spaniard Cortez had

conquered Mexico and accumulated great

wealth by seizing Aztec gold news

traveled fast and it was in a sense the

desire to to find something similar or

even richer than what Cortez found in

Mexico which persuaded pizzaro and his

um companions to start probing down the

Pacific

coast in 1526 pitaro and Almagro set

sail from Panama to conquer the

unexplored lands of the

south after months without finding

anything the men were

mutinous

so some of the soldiers complain in

secret to the governor of Panama and the

governor of Panama sent an to pick them

up pizaro's starving men had camped on a

hostile island off the coast of Colombia

called the Ila de

Galo when the rescue boat arrived pitaro

was furious at the lack of

loyalty he took his sword and drew a

line in the sand demanding those who

wanted to carry on to cross

it to some degree pizaro's decision to

draw line in the sun it was a risk the

risk was paid off because he eventually

succeeded of the original 160 men only

13 crossed the line the others returned

to Panama and

safety pizzaro eventually reached the

Peruvian Coastline and landed at the

town of tumbes

the local Indians had never seen

Europeans before the heavily armored

Spaniards who emerged from huge Wooden

Ships were like aliens to

them they live in the

sea in a house made out of wood nobody

makes a house of wood here okay but not

only that they are they have

iron some of them have like a tail for

the SW okay

they have wool in the face like my llama

wool in the

face

wow the locals gave the Spaniards Gold

Silver and precious

stones they told stories of great cities

containing unimaginable

riches pitaro had found his Eldorado but

had to be

patient this historic meeting of races

meant nothing pitaro simply ordered one

of his soldiers to scout the town for a

future attack when he returned with

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reinforcements pitaro went back to Spain

and triumphantly headed for the town of

his

birth pitaro was drawn to his hometown

of too partly because of it its

tradition by now of sending a fit able

competent young man many with some sort

of military experience to America uh he

was drawn by the whole family netwk work

he recruited his half Brothers Gonzalo

Quan and

Hernando one of the strong links was

blood link if you can trust somebody has

to be your blood so in that sense it was

very helpful that they had all these

brothers around and at the end if they

gain something to still within the

family before he could return to Peru

pizzaro needed approval from the Spanish

King Charles I the monarchy was an

enthusiastic supporter of the idea that

it might become richer and more powerful

and that through the monarchy Spain

Spanish civilization would become more

important greater more recognized by the

rest of Western European

Christendom Charles I was about to

extend his

territory 2,000 mil away in Peru the

Inca Empire was in

disarray there had been a vicious civil

war in Peru uh before the spion arrived

this Civil War was between rival incor

hka had been beaten by his brother at

Alpa The Civil Wars weakened the Incas

so that when they faced the Spaniard

they were clearly not at the top of

their power unlike the vulnerable incor

the Spanish were well trained in the art

of

Conquest remember that the hispanos were

coming out of 700 years of constant

struggle and combat against the mors

these were people that have been breeded

for 700 years generation after

generation of

Warriors pizaro returned to tumbes in

April

1532 in the four years he'd been away

the town had been ravaged by the Civil

War he realized from the reception that

he got in TAS that was not going to have

to fight his way through Peru and I

think he was then very quickly aware

that the majority of the Indians with

whom he first came into contact were not

going to resist

him seizing the opportunity provided by

a divided nation pitaro gave the order

to cross the tumbes river and head south

into the unknown heart of atala's Inca

Empire they marched to the city of

kakara

where atala would meet them atala and

his men came to

kahaka probably without a very clear

idea of how precisely how they were

going to deal with these strange men

what they weren't prepared for was the

ferocity the savagery of the Spanish

attack the incor were expecting a

peaceful encounter pitaro saw this as an

opportunity to seize

power when talp arrives in Kara there is

a small group of hisers that approach

him the other group of hispani are

within the the different buildings that

surrounded the the square and are ready

with

weapons the Spanish were not in the mood

for

negotiation pitaro said he was an

ambassador from a great king

overseas his priest urged atala to

reject his false idols and worship the

true Christian

God the frer Alo

HED um a religious book to ATA WPA ATA

walpa almost unwittingly played his part

in the script by throwing away that

symbol of the true religion of Spanish

superiority with the excuse he needed

pitaro ordered the attack in an act of

UN restrained savagery his men Drew

their arms and began shooting into the

crowd the shocked inkers were thrown

into

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Panic for Nas the Spanish might have

been seen as something absolutely

overwhelming a force of nature maybe

these people were shot not only with

guns but with cannons and also horses

were thr to them it was just panic in

the confusion atpa was dragged from his

throne and captured while the mounted

Spanish soldiers tore into the fleeing

incor over 2,000 incor died and 5,000

were captured more importantly for

pitaro the native Emperor was his

hostage they knew that they have one key

individual that was the leader if you

take the leader no everybody else will

fall in a bloody double cross Francisco

SC pitaro had captured the head of the

mighty Incan

Empire he was now in a prime position to

conquer this new world and satisfy his

lust for power and

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gold Francisco pitaro had launched his

conquest of Peru and taken the Incan

Emperor at Alpa

hostage he saw him as a prized asset

you're to understand that piso's

behavior is nothing but the same

behavior of a contemporary kidnapper who

will always take care of his or her

victim first and will go to extremes to

guarantee his

life pitaro wanted to get his hands on

the wealth of the Incan Empire and

demanded vast sums of gold and silver as

at alpa's

Ransom the petrified incor filled two

rooms full of gold and silver for the

Spaniards gold was usually associated

with the sun and silver was associated

with the moon so that the proper way to

rever the Sun God was to produce golden

objects when the Incas discovered that

the Spanos were basically after gold for

them it must have been a shock because

these were basically religious objects

that were used for

ritual pitaro didn't care about the

cultural significance of these artifacts

he began melting them down into gold

bars when all had been melting down the

Spaniards had

13,000 PB weight of gold that's about 6

tons of gold and 26,000 tons of silver

in

bars bizzaro's men had been promised

fortunes when they set out after their

military success they were each rewarded

with a share of the booty they were

obsessed by gold because they never saw

amount of go in their lives and they got

so much that everything BEC very

expensive you want to buy a horse you

had to pay the amount of money you could

buy three houses in Spain why because

everybody had

gold while pitaro satisfied the greed of

his men for the time being he kept up a

facade of Friendship with his

prisoner P had a very strong

relationship with atala it was openly

strong it was well rehearsed but it was

only because it was in his best interest

it was part of his

policy at Alpa remained under close

guard he grew increasingly dependent on

the Spanish and was even coerced into

ordering the death of his rival brother

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WKA pitaro had stayed long enough in

kakara his Scouts told him of many new

territories offering greater

riches after 12 months in captivity at

Alpo was outgrowing his

usefulness I think pitaro knew that if

he was going to take control of this

Empire that killing atala would not only

get rid of an enemy who' served his

purpose it would assist him in

projecting himself to the very heart of

the incor

Empire after befriending the Fallen

Emperor pitaro betrayed him atpa was

found guilty of treason and condemned to

death by burning at the

stake for the inors the sentence was

horrific they believed that burning

would deny their Emperor and

afterlife in order to keep his soul at

Alpa was forced to accept

baptism he was then garotted in kakara

on the 26th of July 1533

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pitaro marched on the ancient city of

kusco the spiritual home of the

inors it was the last Bas of potential

Rebellion to avoid conflict he offered

the incor monarchy a share of power he

was prepared to do a deal with the incor

elite in Costco so it's a skillful

combination of force and

diplomacy pitaro crowned a puppet King

MCO Inca

moo Inca was used by the swanard he was

prepared to collaborate with them in

return for being given the title of

Inca uh and in return for his extended

family being in theory confirmed in its

position now dominant in the city pitaro

encouraged his soldiers to enjoy the

fruits of their

labor they looted religious temples for

gold and took any Incan woman they

fancied

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mixed race children were a useful way of

cementing the Spanish

presence this is where you see his

politics of mixing Bloods very

conveniently he would never allow an

indigenous Noble girl to marry a man

that was not part of pizaro's team

pitaro was also in dispute with his old

partner Al

who felt he and his men hadn't had a

proper share in The Spoils of

Conquest to perate him pitaro sent Al

magro to the unknown lands to the South

where he could claim what he found as

his

own Francisco pizzaro left kusco to set

up his new capital of Lima on the

coast he left two of his brothers in

charge of kusco but Juan and Gonzalez

lacked the leadership powers of their

half brother we have a number of

accounts of the Spaniards fulfilling the

almost stereotype role of aggressive

ignorant greedy bloodthirsty

conquerors the conquistadors were out of

control their greed and bad behavior

caused resentment amongst the incor it

was so rude and so

rough that a few of them left everything

went back to Spain after seeing what was

going

on in 1535 the frustrated puppet leader

Mano Inca was caught trying to raise

resistance against the Spanish he was

clapped in irons tortured and publicly

humiliated well M's life is tragic he

starts as a puppet

Inca he then is humili it he was at

least clever enough to run away one

night Mano slipped out of kusco and

grouped together a significant Incan

Army now the Incas were fighting not

only for their lives but for the

existence of their

race in May

1535 the oppressed people of kusco rose

up and fought the Spanish forces in the

Hills above the

city despite their limited technology

the incor managed to take

control they certainly succeeded in

capturing the city of kusco uh which

they held for about a

week the incor may have beaten the

Spanish had petar's old partner Al magro

not returned from his expedition to

reinforce the struggling Spanish

forces he arrived back however in Cusco

just in time to ensure that MCO Revolt

would not succeed and he then installed

himself in command in

kusco Al magro still felt cheated by

pitara his Conquest to Chile had been

fruitless he decided to take matters

into his own

hands there was a power struggle

effectively between arag and pitaro each

of whom could claim with some justice to

have the crown on his

side pitaro wanted to get rid of his

troublesome partner but he was now the

respectful governor of Lima and didn't

want to get his hands dirty by murdering

a successful Conquistador and subject of

the

king it was he who had authorized his

brother arando to put together the force

uh which defeated Al

magro Al magro was caught and executed

in

kusco his head was displayed as a

warning to other wouldbe

Rebels with the threat to his power

extinguished pitaro played the part of a

Spanish Colonial Governor he built

himself a Governor's Palace on the main

Square in lemur he um essentially

enjoyed the fruits of his success in

Peru in 1541 Don Francisco pitaro was 63

years old one evening a band of

Assassins surprised him as he ate dinner

in his residence although he fought

desperately he was over overpowered and

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slain he was killed by the avenging son

of Almagro his former friend the Fatal

blow went through his

Jawbone uh through his

jugular and actually separed the upper

part of his spine his spinal

column uh there were I think 70 other

wounds found uh on the

remains

um he was the subject of a violent fenit

attack it was certainly in a very

obvious way uh Revenge by the

alagas after successfully conquering a

nation and destroying an indigenous race

Francisco pizzaro was murdered by his

own people