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Manco Capac
(redirected from Manco Inca Yupanqui)

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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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00 Hardcover F3442 Written by the son of the last Inca Emperor of Peru, the Relascion de como los Espanoles Entraron en el Peru (1570), an account of Incan dealings with the Spaniard following the arrival of Francisco Pizzarro--centering on the alliance between the authors' father, Manco Inca Yupanqui (the half-brother of Atahualpa), and Pizzaro and how it unraveled--is presented here in English translation side by side with the original Spanish on facing pages.
History of how the Spaniards arrived in Peru; dual-language edition by Reference & Research Book News
 
 
 
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