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Portrait and signature of Francisco Pizarro  
     
 
In 1532, the Inca or Tahuantisuyo empire, as it was then called, fell before the Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro. The state, in fact, had already been weakened by a civil war which had broken out in 1529 as two rival brothers, Huascar and Atahualpa , contended for power.
 
 
 
 
Pizarro captured Atahualpa in November 1532, and had him executed in July 1533 after accusing him of ordering the murder of his own brother Huascar . Comparatively feeble resistance by several Inca generals was swiftly crushed and Spanish rule established over the former empire of the Incas – a dominion that soon became the most powerful viceroyalty Spain was ever to possess overseas.
 
     
     
 

 


 
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