Dr. James Fitzsimmons
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Um, he just like, uh,
You know, Adewapa, I think, at that point had...
Was it 100,000 troops with him?
And the Spanish had, like, what, 100, 200 guys?
It was really, again, another tiny group of people.
Atahualpa, you know, they think he's a god or he's sort of semi-divine.
He thinks he's invulnerable.
He's like, what are these guys going to do?
Pizarro invites him to a party, like, to, like, talk to him.
And Atahualpa says yes.
He still takes 10,000 guards with him but doesn't arm them.
And instead of sort of meeting him, Pizarro sets up an ambush.
You know, sets up snipers, basically.
Causes enough chaos when the guy arrives to take the emperor hostage.
And because the emperor is kind of a god or godlike, people listen to him.
And that's kind of how the Inca Empire falls.
It's not like sort of a big military conquest where there's a huge battle or anything like that.