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- 01Francisco Pizarro had 168 soldiers and 62 horses against an Inca retinue of 80,000; the Spanish suffered not one combat death.
- 02Atahualpa offered to fill a room 22 feet long and 17 feet wide with gold up to a red line on the wall as ransom.
- 03Despite receiving the ransom — roughly 13,000 pounds of gold and 26,000 pounds of silver — the Spanish garroted Atahualpa in 1533.