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The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, also known as the Conquest of Peru, was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.After years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes, 168 Spanish soldiers under conquistador Francisco Pizarro, along with his brothers in arms and their indigenous allies, captured the last Sapa Inca, Atahualpa, at the ...
His works on the subject, The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic (1837), The History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843), A History of the Conquest of Peru (1847) and the unfinished History of the Reign of Phillip II (1856–1858) have become classic works in the field, and have had a great impact on the study of both ...
He had arrived in New Spain around 1530, taking an active part in the conquest of Peru, [4] being also part of the help received, by Francisco Pizarro, [5] to suppress the great rebellion that had driven the warrior Manco-Cápac in Cuzco. [6] He also supported Pizarro against the army of Diego de Almagro, participating in the battle of Las ...
The work was conceived by the author as the second part of his Comentarios Reales, which had been published in Lisbon in 1609. In this first part, the author discussed the culture and customs of the Incas and other peoples of Peru; in the second part, he discussed the Spanish conquest of the land and the establishment of a colony.
Pedro Pizarro (c. 1515 – c. 1602) was a Spanish chronicler and conquistador.He took part in most events of the Spanish conquest of Peru and wrote an extensive chronicle of them under the title Relación del descubrimiento y conquista de los reinos del Perú ("Relation of the discovery and conquest of the kingdoms of Peru"), which he finished in 1571.
After the conquest of the Incas, the Spanish Empire established a Viceroyalty with jurisdiction over most of its South American domains. Peru declared independence from Spain in 1821, but achieved independence only after the Battle of Ayacucho three years later. Modern historiography of Peru divides its history into three main periods: [2]
"The discovery and conquest of Peru" translated with an introduction by J. M. Cohen - Harmondsworth, Middlesex - Penguin Books, 1968; Hampe Martínez, Teodoro (1991). Agustín de Zárate, contador y cronista indiano (Estudio biográfico). In: Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, tome 27-2, 1991. Epoque moderne. pp. 129–154;. In Spanish
The third part of Cieza de León's Crónicas del Perú, which examined the discovery and conquest of Peru by the Spaniards, was considered by historians to be lost. The document eventually turned up in a Vatican library, and historian Francesca Cantù published a Spanish version of the text in 1979.