The largest empire of the pre-Columbian Americas, a 4,000-km Andean colossus of stone roads, terraced mountains and storehouses ruled from Cusco, the navel of the world.
Shattered by a succession war (1529-32) and Pizarro's tiny army: Atahualpa was seized at Cajamarca in 1532 and executed in 1533, Cusco fell that November, and the imperial state ceased to exist — surviving only as the Neo-Inca rump at Vilcabamba until 1572.
The atlas holds 6 border frames for Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1438 · 1451 · 1472 · 1493 · 1529 · 1533.
A comprehensive scholarly synthesis of Inca society, administration and the Tawantinsuyu state.
The classic narrative of the Spanish conquest of the Inca empire from Cajamarca onward.
Landmark stage play dramatizing Pizarro's conquest of Atahualpa and the fall of Tawantinsuyu, set exactly at the empire's collapse in 1532-33.