YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE INCA EMPIRE THE END OF THE EMPIRE
When, in the spring of 1526, Francisco Pizarro's boot first made contact with Inca soil, he could have had no idea about the vastness of the empire he had just landed on, nor the lead part he would play in its downfall.
The Spanish conquistador and his small brigade of men had landed at the Peruvian port of Tumbes, but there was no suggestion that he had the numbers to instigate an invasion, let alone a conquest. Instead, it was a brief factfinding mission, sendingwith good news, painting a picture of an affluent community where the chief's house was decorated with plentiful gold and silver. Pizarro knew at that moment he would return. And, on that next visit, he would be fully prepared.
