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On November 15, 1532, a hundred and twenty Spaniards, armed with horses and cannons, achieved to put an end to the Tahuantinsuyo. That day the Inca Atahualpa fell in an ambush in the Cajamarca Square and was arrested by the Spaniards.
From its captivity, Atahualpa ordered to kill his brother, who was kept as a prisoner. When the Spaniards knew about these events, they blamed Atahualpa on fratricide and sentenced him to death of penalty. The semi god was ill treated before the crowd at the same time the sacred "mascapaicha" fell to the ground. When he died, between June 8 and July 29, 1533, the Tahuantinsuyo political cohesion had already been destroyed. After the execution, the Spaniards came back to Cusco where they thought they would be welcome since they had killed Atahualpa, who murdered Huáscar, Inca recognized as such in Cusco. They were not only welcome, but also considered as gods because they were different. They had white skin, they carried firearms, they had strange animals, the horses and they even thought the horse and the Spaniards were just one being who had the ability to divide in two. They also believed they were deities because there was an old myth telling that the Incas gods had to arrive in crafts to Tahuantinsuyo with a human being's appearance and by water, that is, sailing, exactly as the Spaniards did. For all these reasons they accepted them and welcomed them to the Capital. Its inhabitants showed them everything they had, their palaces, temples, towns and cities, but they didn't tell anything about Machu Picchu. |
 
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