Pizarro takes Cusco
1533 · Event
The conquistadors ride unopposed into the navel of the world — the Inca capital of golden temples and stone fitted without mortar — and install a compliant young prince, Manco Inca, as their puppet emperor. The looting of Coricancha's golden garden begins at once; the puppet watches, and learns.
On these timelines: The Conquest of Peru, Latin America, Pre-Columbian Americas, Spain, Master
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