The #CajamarcaMassacre was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1532. First described as a battle, it was an ambush in which just under 200 soldiers under #FranciscoPizarro captured #SapaInca #Atahualpa, then butchered about 3000 of his attendants. This opened #Spain's conquest of the #Inca.

#SapaInca (from Quechua: sapa inka; lit. 'the only emperor') was the monarch of the Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu "the region of the four [provinces]"), as well as ruler of the earlier Kingdom of Cusco and the later Neo-Inca State at Vilcabamba. While the

#SapaInca (from Quechua: sapa inka; lit. 'the only emperor') was the monarch of the Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu "the region of the four [provinces]"), as well as ruler of the earlier Kingdom of Cusco and the later Neo-Inca State at Vilcabamba. While the