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#1528
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Atahualpa
Atahualpa (Atawallpa) was the last ruler of the Inca Empire. He reigned from 1532 until his capture and execution by the invading Spanish forces led by Francisco Pizarro in 1533. The troubled Incas had suffered six years of damaging civil war and Atahualpa was only just enjoying his ascendancy to the throne when the Spanish arrived to turn the Inca world upside down.
Further weakened by European-introduced diseases, which wiped out millions, the Incas could do nothing against the better-armed invaders, even if there were only 168 of them. The Conquistadors were utterly ruthless and they would stop at nothing to gain the fabulous riches of the Americas' largest-ever empire.
Civil War & Succession
Atahualpa's father Wayna Qhapaq died in 1528 of smallpox, the most distinguished victim of the epidemic of European diseases which had spread from central America even faster than the foreign invaders themselves could manage. This epidemic killed a staggering 65-90% of the native population. When Wayna Qhapaq died without choosing a second heir (his first choice Ninan Cuyuchi also died of smallpox) Atahualpa battled for the throne with his half-brother Waskar (or Huascar) in a hugely damaging civil war which the Spanish would be only too glad to take advantage of when they arrived on Inca territory in 1532. Atahualpa was based in the northern capital at Quito while Waskar was at the Inca capital at Cuzco. After diplomatic relations soured between the two brothers, open warfare broke out in the north. There followed a series of battles between the Inca nobility which was costly to both sides until, after six years of fighting, Atahualpa finally prevailed.
By the time Spanish arrived, Atahualpa had managed to capture Waskar but the factions which had deeply split the empire remained. Waskar was imprisoned and his kin-group was killed, as were those who had supported him. Atahualpa even killed historians and destroyed the Inca quipu records. This was to be a total renewal, what the Incas called a pachakuti or 'turning over of time and space', an epoch-changing event which the Incas believed periodically occurred through the ages. What Atahualpa did not know was that another pachakuti was less than a year away, and this time he would be its victim.
Atahualpa's reign may have been brief but, as the Sapa ('Unique') Inca, he lived a life of extreme luxury. Drinking from gold cups, wearing silver-soled sandals and treated as a manifestation of the Sun god Inti on earth, Atahualpa was the head of the largest and richest empire the Americas had ever seen. His taste for opulence was chronicled by the Spanish who said that he once ordered a cloak made only from bat skins. As the Inca king and member of the royal blood line, he had the right to wear even more gold jewellery than the already over-laden nobility. His regalia included a feather headband (Ilauto), a golden mace (champi), and king-size golden ear-spools. The monarch travelled on a gold and silver litter further embellished with parrot feathers. He was fed food by a servant, and anything the royal person touched was collected and burnt in an annual ceremony to ward off witchcraft. If ever there was a pampered ruler it was the Sapa Inca of ancient Peru.
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America First Ep. 1528 | 04/07/25
nick talks about getting pussy in probably the most queer way I’ve ever seen “let me worry about my relationship to pussy” 💀
Looking for a fic I read on AO3 at some point last year. Eleven and Mike have been living sort of underground for a few years, but come out of hiding when the upside down returns. They got to tell everyone, but Steve and Eddie are not at that meeting. When Eleven and Mike go to get them and catch them up on what's happening, they find Steve and Eddie living together in love and with a bunch of foster/adopted kids. Thanks in advance for all the help as I try to track this fic down.
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WAR IDIOTS
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NAZI U.S.A. led NATO
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But their are powerful USA voices that speak out truth to power, whether they are listened too or not is another matter. But I could not put aside the powerful words spoken my Scott Ritter. Listen to some sanity…
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My original post was censored, as you can see, by YouTube, but since I have smarten up to them, I have a back up copy which follows...
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Perhaps USA thinks that it is better to fight them over-there than in USA. America thinks it cannot be reached or touched in a war, is just plain stupidity. By trying to make everybody else weak, the powers that be think they will be able to maintain their hegemony for their rich and powerful industrialist profiteers who own the USA government, money is their god, but in reality, they are forcing the others to be more powerful. It would be easier and less destructive to find a cooperative and a more friendly and honest solution, but greed has its price. This is going to lead us into …
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