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Title
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Cvsco urbs nobilissima & opule[n]tissima Peruani regni in occide[n]tali parte sita, in qua habitabat magnus ille Rex Atabaliba quo tempore Hispani regnum illud armis sibi vindicarun
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Description
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The Peruvian city of Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, is shown from above. The city is laid out in an orderly fashion, with wide streets running in straight lines dividing city blocks. The city is surrounded on three sides by a square stone wall with towers built at each corner and in the middle of each wall. On the west side of the city there is a palace built atop several pyramidal layers and nestled into the hillside. There are guards armed with spears standing on each layer of ground leading up to the palace. A group of Inca people form a procession heading towards the palace. Four people carry a litter on their shoulders, upon which the Incan king Atahualpa sits. Atahualpa was the last Inca Emperor (or Sapa Inca) to officially rule before the Spanish conquistadors established their control. Along the bottom of the image, a group of Inca people on the left engage in acrobatic activities and a group on the right hold finely crafted statuettes, probably of gold.
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Image Creator
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Theodor de Bry (Engraver)
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Theodor de Bry (Printer)
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Identifier
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mta:23814
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Source Name
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Americae pars sexta. Sive Historiæ ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[n]se scriptæ, sectio tertia, res no[n] minus nobiles & admiratione plenas continens, quàm præcedentes duæ. In hacenim reperies, qua ratione Hispani opule[n]tisimas illas Peruani regni provincias occuparint, capto Rege Atabaliba: deinde orta inter ipsos Hispanos in eo regno civilia bella.
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Image
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