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Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala (c. 1535 [1] – after 1616), also known as Huamán Poma or Waman Poma, was a Quechua nobleman known for chronicling and denouncing the ill treatment of the natives of the Andes by the Spanish Empire after their conquest of Peru. [2]
In this way, they captured the terrace walls of Sacsayhuamán while the Inca army held on to the two tall towers of the complex. The Inca commanders, Paucar Huaman and the high priest or Willaq Umu, decided to leave the confinement of the towers and fight their way towards Calca, the site of Manco Inca's headquarters, to bring back ...
In November of 1533, the troops of Quizquiz, fearing to be sieged, left the city and were persecuted until Anta, where they presented battle, but were defeated, fleeing their leader to Paruro. "The execution of Atahualpa Inka in Cajamarca, they behead him", painted in 1615 by the Inca Guamán Poma. Royal Danish Library. [11]
Combat between Inca and Spanish forces as depicted by Guaman Poma. Manco Inca had gathered more than 20,000 troops at Ollantaytambo, among them, a large number of recruits from tribes of the Amazon Rainforest. [14] Manco Inca's forces were a militia army made up mostly of conscripted farmers with only rudimentary weapons training. [15]
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However, during the third battle, the Alcahuisa sinchi was captured and eventually imprisoned for life, while the lands owned by his people were split between the people of Cusco. Satisfied with the victory and having achieved the consolidation of his power around Cusco, Mayta Capac prepared his army for an expedition towards the Cunti people ...
The third season of Battle on the Beach wrapped up on Sunday night, and fans had a lot to say about who won the grand prize.
Martín de Murúa by Guamán Poma de Ayala (1615). Martín de Murúa, O. de M., (c. 1525 in Gipuzkoa, Spain – c. 1618 in Spain) was a Basque Mercedarian friar and chronicler of the Spanish conquest of the Americas.