And on the frontiers of the lost empire, they are piecing ... and in 1533 their leader, Francisco Pizarro, picked a young prince, Manco Inca Yupanqui, to rule as a puppet king.

The legend begins in the 16th century, when the great Inca Empire in western South America ... in modern-day Peru by Spanish commander Francisco Pizarro. Pizarro agreed to release Atahualpa ...

This battle has conventionally been portrayed as the brave rout of a vast Inca army by a handful of wily and determined conquistadors commanded by Pizarro. Cock's discoveries pointed in the ...

Home to numerous indigenous Indian tribes, the Peruvian rain forest's most recognized Indian inhabitants were the Incas whose capital was in the Andes but whose empire extended into the cloud forest.

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro is infamous for his ruthless conquest of the Inca Empire in South America. Driven by a desire for wealth, Pizarro captured and executed the Incan emperor ...

the Spanish quickly imposed their own religion on the Empire. One of the first churched they built was San Francisco de Quito – constructed on top of the palace of the last undisputed Inca ...

Hartman, Joseph R. 2016. Lothar Baumgarten's Imaginary Amazon: A Game of “Us” versus “Them”. The Latin Americanist, Vol. 60, Issue. 1, p. 23. HANß, STEFAN ...

All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire, the Inca himself, who claimed to be descended from the sun god. Llamas were the Incas' most important domestic animal, providing food, clothing and ...

Pedro Pizarro, president and CEO of Edison International, has spoken about the best part of his job: getting to know Edison Scholars, high school students who get a $50,000 scholarship to pursue a ...