pizarro conquers the inca

*Pizarro Conquers the Inca

*Pizarro Conquers the Inca * Main Idea:

* The riches of the Aztec Empire led other Spanish conquerors to seek out their fortunes in South America and their native people.

*Pizarro Conquers the Inca * Lecture Focus:

* Have you ever done anything because you have seen other people do it and succeed? We are going to look at how another conquistador followed the

examples of Cortes and conquered the Inca.


* In 1513 Vasco Nunez de Balboa led a band of soldiers across the jungle covered mountains of present day Panama.

* Native Americans said that if Balboa traveled south along the western sea, he would find a great empire filled with gold and other riches.


* Vasco Nunez de Balboa’s monument in Panama City, Panama


* Balboa found the sea, known today as the Pacific Ocean, however, he never found the “Golden Empire.”

* A jealous Spanish official in Panama falsely charged Balboa with treason, or disloyalty to the government and ordered him beheaded.


* Francisco Pizarro, who marched with Balboa, took up the search for this “Golden City”.

* Pizarro was illiterate and could not even write his name, but he knew how to fight and organize his soldiers. (Pizarro's Statue in Trujillo, Spain)


* Like Balboa and Cortes, Pizarro came from the harsh lands of Extremadura, however, he was not of noble birth.


* At age 16 Pizarro lived with his mother and tended animals in the

fields.

* Pizarro’s family was not wealthy and could expect little in the way of inheritance and decided to become

a soldier.

* It is likely that he followed in his father's footsteps to the battlefields of Italy for a time before hearing of

the riches of the Americas.

* He first went to the New World in 1502 as part of a colonization expedition and while helping

explore Panama became a wealthy

land owner.


*Questions:

*1) Vasco de Balboa was traveling along Panama looking for what?

*2) What was Balboa charged with and how did he die?

*3) Who took up the search after Balboa died?

*4) What was he known for? What could he not do?


*Questions:

* 1) Vasco de Balboa was traveling along Panama looking for what?

* A great empire filled with riches and gold

* 2) What was Balboa charged with and how did he die?

* Treason, he was beheaded

* 3) Who took up the search after Balboa died?

* Francisco Pizarro

* 4) What was he known for? What could he not do?

* Pizarro was a great fighter but he could not read

*Pizarro and the Inca * By the 1530’s, the Inca thought they ruled most of the world.

* Two treats from the north soon proved they did not

*Pizarro and the Inca

* The Inca could do nothing to stop the southward spread of smallpox.

* They also failed to scare away Pizarro, who led 160 adventurers up the mountains into the Incan homeland.


* The Inca tried to ignore him, but Pizarro would not leave.

* He raided Incan storehouses, villages and even preformed extreme violent acts against the Incan people.

*Pizarro and the Inca * The Incan Emperor, Atahualpa, thought Pizarro was absolutely crazy

or a complete fool.

* Atahualpa was massively confused, could this man stand up to an army of 80,000 Incan warriors.


* Atahualpa misjudged Pizarro completely.

* The Spaniard had an advantage…the Inca knew very little about the Europeans and their fighting styles while Pizarro knew a lot about the Incans.


* Purely based on weapons alone who do you think had the advantage???

*Pizarro and the Inca * Pizarro had spent more than 30 years fighting Native Americans and

understood their behaviors very well.

* Also, his good friend Hernan Cortes gave Pizarro an inside look at the conquest of the Aztec…and in late 1532, he decided on a plan so bold that

even Cortes might not have risked it.


*Questions:

*1) What two threats could the Incan stop.

*2) What friend was giving Pizarro some helpful tips.


*Questions:

*1) What two threats could the Incan stop.

*They could not stop the spread of smallpox and they failed to scare away Pizarro

*2) What friend was giving Pizarro some helpful tips.

*Hernan Cortes

*Pizarro Defeats the Inca

* Spanish messengers invited Atahualpa to a meeting, that would hopefully create some type of peace agreement.

* Atahualpa agreed but made a fatal mistake, he left most of his huge army behind.

*Pizarro Defeats the Inca * Atahualpa believed that his 5,000 personal bodyguards were enough protection

against the small amount of Spanish Conquistadors.

* Atahualpa also decided that again based on the extremely tiny amount of soldiers the Spanish had his army did not require weapons.

*Pizarro Defeats the Inca * When they met, Pizarro wasted no time in asking the emperor to give up his gods.

* Atahualpa laughed at this request, at which point Pizarro ordered an attack .

*Pizarro Defeats the Inca * Cannons roared, trumpets blared and sword swinging soldiers shrieked battle cries.

* Pizarro then seized Atahualpa and dragged him off the battlefield.


* Atahualpa tried to buy his freedom…offering to fill his jail cell with gold and a nearby room with silver.

* Pizarro jumped at the deal.


* Atahualpa kept his part of the deal, Pizarro on the other hand did not.

* He charged the emperor with many crimes: plotting a rebellion, worshiping false gods, having to many wives and much more.


* Pizarro staged a mock trial and found Atahualpa guilty of revolting against the Spanish, practicing worship of false gods, and murdering Huascar, his brother.

* Atahualpa was sentenced to execution by burning, which horrified him, since the Inca believed that the soul would not be able to go on to the afterlife if the

body were burned.

*Pizarro Defeats the Inca * Friar Vicente de Valverde, intervened, telling Atahualpa that if he agreed to convert

to Catholicism, he would convince Pizarro to alter the sentence.

* Atahualpa agreed to be baptized into the Catholic faith and was given the name Juan Santos Atahualpa in honor of the feast day of the beheading of St. John the

Baptist, which falls on August 29.

*Pizarro Defeats the Inca * In accordance with his request, he was strangled with a garrote on August 29, 1533.

* Following his execution, his clothes and some of his skin were burned, and his remains were given a Christian burial.


* To reward Pizarro, the Spanish King, Charles V, made him governor of Peru.

* He then chose a new emperor for the Inca, however, this new emperor had to follow his every order.


* Pizarro’s conquest of Peru opened most of South America to Spanish rule.

* Spain controlled a vast territory of South America, covering about 375,000 square miles and about seven million inhabitants.


*Spain was literally on its way to building the worlds first global empire!


*Questions:

*1) What were the major mistakes that Atahualpa made when meeting Pizarro?

*2) What happened once Atahualpa laughed at the requested to give up the Incan gods?

*3) What did Atahualpa try to buy his freedom with?

*4) How was Pizarro rewarded for his conquest of the Inca?


*Questions:

* 1) What were the major mistakes that Atahualpa made when meeting Pizarro?

* He only took 5,000 soldiers with him and ordered his men to leave their weapons behind

* 2) What happened once Atahualpa laughed at the requested to give up the Incan gods?

* Pizarro ordered his attack

* 3) What did Atahualpa try to buy his freedom with?

* He offered to fill his jail cell with gold and one with silver

* 4) How was Pizarro rewarded for his conquest of the Inca?

* He was made governor of Peru


*Reading Check:

*Answer the following question in an open ended response.

*Explain how did Pizarro fail to keep his promise to Atahualpa when they were negotiating.


*Analyze:


*Why were the Aztec and the Inca so easily defeated by the significantly smaller Spanish forces?


*Expository Writing:


*Imagine that you are an Aztec or an Inca seeing a Spanish conquistador for the first time. Write a newspaper article

describing what you have obsereved.

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