Atahualpa
(Around -? -1500-33)
Atahualpa the 12th and the “last” Inca ruler of Peru (between 1532 and 1533). was born of a Quitan mother. When his father Huayna Capac (the 11th and the last to rule over a united empire) died in 1925, disputed the succession with his eldest half brother, the Inca ruler Huascar. Atahualpa defeated Huascar in 1532 and subsequently imprisoned him and put to death all the members of the royal family he believed might try to dethrone him. In November of the same year, Atahualpa was captured by the Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro in Cajamarca and thousand of his followers were massacred. On the basis of perjured evidence, Atahualpa was found guilty of conspiring against Pizarro and was executed thus putting an end to the Inca Empire.