Atahualpa

THINGS

Considered to be the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, the Incan Empire experienced a very rapid growth and subsequent fall within the 300 years of its existence.

PEOPLE

Atahualpa spent his life dominating anyone who stood in his path to power, including his family. But his grand plan of ascendancy didn't account for the arrival of the greedy and bloodthirsty new occupants of the Americas.

INSTANT

“I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement....



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