With Atahualpa dead, the Spaniards proceed to…
November 1533 CE
With Atahualpa dead, the Spaniards proceed to march on Cusco.
On the way, they deal another decisive blow, aided by native American allies from the pro-Huascar faction, to the still formidable remnants of Atahualpa's army.
Then on November 15, 1533, exactly a year after arriving at Cajamarca, Pizarro, reinforced with an army of five thousand native auxiliaries, captures the imperial city and places Manco Capac II, kin of Huascar and his faction, on the Inca throne as a Spanish puppet.
Further consolidation of Spanish power in Peru, however, is slowed during the next few years by both indigenous resistance and internal divisions among the victorious Spaniards.
The native population, even those who had allied initially with the invaders against the Incas, have second thoughts about the arrival of the newcomers.
They originally believed that the Spaniards simply represented one more in a long line of Andean power-contenders with whom to ally or accommodate.
The continuing violent and rapacious behavior of many Spaniards, however, as well as the harsh overall effects of the new colonial order, causes many to alter this assessment.
This change leads Manco Capac II to balk at his subservient role as a Spanish puppet and to rise in rebellion in 1536.
Ultimately unable to defeat the Spaniards, Manco retreats to Vilcabamba in the remote Andean interior where he establishes an independent Inca kingdom, replete with a miniature royal court, that will hold out until 1572.
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