168 Men vs 80,000: History’s Most Hopeless Battle

On November 16th, 1532, in Cajamarca, Peru, a tense standoff began between 168 Spanish conquistadors and 80,000 Inca soldiers. This history documentary explores the pivotal battle of Cajamarca, a crucial event in the fall of the Inca Empire. Discover how Francisco Pizarro and the Spanish Empire forever altered the course of ancient civilizations in the Andes. November 16, 1532. Cajamarca, Peru. 168 Spanish soldiers are hiding in buildings around an empty plaza. Outside, on the hills surrounding the town: 80,000 Inca warriors. What happened next took less than two hours. This is the story of the most consequential afternoon in the history of the Americas — how the largest empire in the Western Hemisphere ended in a single plaza, on a single day, because of one man who walked into a trap he couldn't conceive of. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏳ VIDEOCHAPTERS 00:00 Cajamarca. November 16, 1532 00:45 The World the Inca Built 02:23 Francisco Pizarro 03:10 The March Into the Unknown 03:50 The Night Before 04:33 Midday 05:59 The Signal 07:01 The Ransom 07:41 How Did This Happen? 09:07 What Remains ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 SOURCES Hemming, John — The Conquest of the Incas (1970) Prescott, William — History of the Conquest of Peru (1847) Diamond, Jared — Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997) de la Vega, Garcilaso — Royal Commentaries of the Incas ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe → @James_Erased_History ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Inca #Pizarro #Cajamarca #ConquestOfPeru #Atahualpa #IncaEmpire #HistoryDocumentary #AIHistory #JamesHistory #erasedhistory 'Eyes In The Void' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Juggernaut' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Penumbra' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au