Cajamarca Research Paper

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Cajamarca was one of the three major cities of the Inca Empire (along with Cuzco and Quito) and the site of the Battle of Cajamarca, during which the conquistador Francisco Pizarro and his group of Spaniards seized Atawallpa, the Inca Emperor, marking the beginning of the end of the Inca Empire, its last outpost, Vilcabamba, finally falling in 1572. Pizarro and his men followed the Inca Road system to Cajamarca where they encountered Atawallpa and began their deceitful plot. The Emperor had stopped in the city on his way to Cuzco after claiming the throne from his brother at Quito. Atawallpa apparently regarded the Pizarro and his men as foreign, but well armed mercenaries and the relationship between the Inca and the Spaniards seemingly proceeded

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