By Catharine Hamm | Los Angeles Times Travel Editor
45. Amazingly, Francisco Pizaro's men, who numbered less than 200, overcame 4,000 or so Incans and captured Atahuallpa, the Incan ruler.
from the history of Cusco ...
To gain his freedom the great Inca agreed to pay the Spanish a ransom of gold and silver filling a large room 22 x 17 feet once with gold and twice with silver. Gold and silver flowed from throughout the kingdom many of the statues from Cusco were sent to pay the ransom. Atahulpa learned that the Spanish wished to see Huascar, fearing the Spanish would make a deal with his brother, Atahulpa ordered Huacar and his family executed.
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