America, Spanish conquest
… a large ransom of silver and gold. Instead of sparing his life as promised, Pizarro executed Atahualpa on 29 August … in 1541. This is a portrait of Atahualpa, drawn from life, by a member of Pizarro's detachment, 1533. Source: … brought from Europe. These diseases might not have been life-threatening in Europe, where over centuries people had …