00:00he filled an entire room with gold to buy his freedom,
00:03and paid the price in full.
00:05They executed him anyway.
00:07Atahualpa was the emperor of the Inca,
00:10having just won a long civil war against his brother Huascar for the throne.
00:14When the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro arrived with a tiny army,
00:19Atahualpa agreed to meet him in the square of Cajamarca.
00:22Surrounded by thousands of unarmed attendants,
00:25confident the meeting would be peaceful.
00:27But the Spanish ambushed them with cannons and cavalry
00:30Thousands of Atahualpa's people were killed
00:33And the emperor himself was captured
00:35In captivity, Atahualpa offered Pizarro a deal
00:39Fill the room where he was held with gold once
00:41And with silver twice
00:43In exchange for his freedom
00:45Pizarro agreed
00:46For months, gold and silver poured in from across the empire
00:50Until the room was filled exactly as promised
00:52But despite receiving the full ransom
00:55Pizarro put Atahualpa on a sham trial with fabricated charges
00:59And sentenced him to be burned at the stake
01:02Fearing that burning would prevent his soul's journey to the afterlife
01:06Atahualpa accepted baptism at the last moment
01:09His sentence was commuted to strangulation instead
01:12He was executed on July 26, 1533
01:16And with him, the last free Inca empire came to an end
