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Manco Capac

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Man·co Ca·pac 1  (mängk kä-päk) fl. 12th century.
Legendary founder of the Inca dynasty who established Cuzco as the center of what would later become the Inca empire.
Man·co Ca·pac 2  (mängk kä-päk) also Manco In·ca Yu·pan·qui (ngk y-pängk) Died 1544.
Last Incan emperor, he was crowned (1534) as a puppet ruler by Francisco Pizarro after the execution of his brother Atahualpa. He later fled Cuzco and mounted a lengthy but ultimately unsuccessful rebellion against Spanish rule.


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