The History of the Incas
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The History of the Incas

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The History of the Incas

About this book

A new translation and introduction to an invaluable source of information on the last and largest empire to develop in the indigenous Americas. The History of the Incas may be the best description of Inca life and mythology to survive Spanish colonization of Peru. Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, a well-educated sea captain and cosmographer of the viceroyalty, wrote the document in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, just forty years after the arrival of the first Spaniards. The royal sponsorship of the work guaranteed Sarmiento direct access to the highest Spanish officials in Cuzco. It allowed him to summon influential Incas, especially those who had witnessed the fall of the Empire. Sarmiento also traveled widely and interviewed numerous local lords ( curacas ), as well as surviving members of the royal Inca families. Once completed, in an unprecedented effort to establish the authenticity of the work, Sarmiento's manuscript was read, chapter by chapter, to forty-two indigenous authorities for commentary and correction. The scholars behind this new edition (the first to be published in English since 1907) went to similarly great lengths in pursuit of accuracy. Translators Brian Bauer and Vania Smith used an early transcript and, in some instances, the original document to create the text. Bauer and Jean-Jacques Decoster's introduction lays bare the biases Sarmiento incorporated into his writing. It also theorizes what sources, in addition to his extensive interviews, Sarmiento relied upon to produce his history. Finally, more than sixty new illustrations enliven this historically invaluable document of life in the ancient Andes.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction: Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa and The History of the Incas
  12. Second Part of the General History Called Indica
  13. Cover letter to King Philip II of Spain
  14. [1] Division of the history
  15. [6] The origin fable of these barbarous Indians of Peru, according to their blind opinions
  16. [7] The fable about the second age and the creation of these barbarous Indians, according to their account
  17. [8] Ancient Tribes of the provinces of Peru and its regions
  18. [9] First settlers of the Cuzco Valley
  19. [10] How the Incas began to tyrannize the lands of the tribes
  20. [11] The origin fable of the Incas of Cuzco
  21. [12] The route that these companies of the Incas took to the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they mix with the history
  22. [13] The entry of the Incas into the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they tell about it there
  23. [14] The disagreements between Manco Capac and the Alcabizas over the fields
  24. [15] The life of Cinchi Roca, the second Inca, begins
  25. [16] The life of Lloqui Yupanqui, the third Inca
  26. [17] The life of Mayta Capac, the fourth Inca
  27. [18] The life of Capac Yupanqui, the fifth Inca
  28. [19] The life of Inca Roca, the sixth Inca
  29. [20] The life of Tito Cusi Hualpa, whom they commonly call Yahuar Huacac
  30. [21] What happened after the Ayarmacas kidnapped Tito Cusi Hualpa
  31. [22] How it became known that Yahuar Huacac was alive
  32. [23] Yahuar Huacac Inca Yupanqui, the seventh Inca, begins the Incaship only after the death of his father
  33. [24] The life of Viracocha, the eighth Inca
  34. [25] The provinces and towns that Viracocha Inca, the eighth Inca, conquered and tyrannized
  35. [26] The life of Inca Yupanqui, or Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the ninth Inca
  36. [27] The Chancas attack Cuzco
  37. [28] The second victory that Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui had over the chancas
  38. [29] Inca Yupanqui Inca raises himself as Inca and takes the tassel without the consent of his father
  39. [30] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the city of Cuzco
  40. [31] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the House of the Sun and establishes new idols in it
  41. [32] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates [the area] two leagues around Cuzco
  42. [33] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui Kills his older brother named Inca Urcon
  43. [34] The nations that Pachacuti Inca destroyed and the towns he attacked; first, Tocay Capac, the cinchi of the Ayarmacas, and [then the] destruction of the Cuyos
  44. [35] The other nations that Inca Yupanqui conquered by himself and with Inca Roca
  45. [36] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui endows the House of the Sun with great wealth
  46. [37] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of Collasuyu
  47. [38] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends [Capac Yupanqui] to conquer the provinces of Chinchaysuyu
  48. [39] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui establishes mitimaes in all the lands he had conquered
  49. [40] The Collas, sons of Chuchic Capac, rise up against Inca Yupanqui, seeking their freedom
  50. [41] Amaru Topa Inca and Apu Paucar Usno continue the conquest of the Collao and defeat the Collas once again
  51. [42] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui appoints his son Topa Inca Yupanqui as his successor
  52. [43] Pachacuti arms his son Topa Inca as a knight
  53. [44] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends his son Topa Inca Yupanqui to conquer Chinchaysuyu
  54. [45] Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui inspects the provinces conquered by him and his captains
  55. [46] Topa Inca Yupanqui sets out a second time by order of his father to conquer what remained of Chinchaysuyu
  56. [47] The death of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
  57. [48] The life of Topa Inca Yupanqui, the tenth Inca
  58. [49] Topa Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of the Andes
  59. [50] Topa Inca Yupanqui goes to conquer and put down the risen Collas
  60. [51] Topa Inca makes the yanayacos
  61. [52] Topa Inca Yupanqui orders a second inspection of the land and does other things
  62. [53] Topa Inca builds the fortress of Cuzco
  63. [54] The death of Topa Inca Yupanqui
  64. [55] The life of Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca
  65. [56] They give the tassel of Inca to Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca
  66. [57] The first things that Huayna Capac did after being invested as Inca
  67. [58] Huayna Capac conquers the Chachapoyas
  68. [59] Huayna Capac inspects all the land from Quito to Chile
  69. [60] Huayna Capac wages war on the Quitos, Pastos, Carangues, Cayambes, and Guancabilicas
  70. [61] The Chiriguanas leave to wage war in Peru against those conquered by the Incas
  71. [62] What Huayna Capac did after those wars
  72. [63] The life of Huascar Inca, the last Inca, and that of Atahualpa
  73. [64] Huascar Inca leaves in person to fight against Chalco Chima and Quizquiz, Atahualpa’s captains
  74. [65] The battle between the forces of Atahualpa and Huascar and the imprisonment of Huascar
  75. [66] What Chalco Chima and Quizquiz said to Huascar Inca and the others of his group
  76. [67] The cruelties that Atahualpa ordered be committed against the defeated and captured men of Huascar
  77. [68] News of the Spaniards reached Atahualpa
  78. [69] The Spaniards reach Cajamarca and capture Atahualpa, who orders that Huascar be killed, and he also dies
  79. [70] Noting how these Incas were oath-breakers and tyrants against their own, in addition to being against the natives of the land
  80. [71] Summary account of the time that the Incas of Peru lasted
  81. Appendix 1: Sample Translation
  82. Appendix 2: Editions of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa’s the History of the Incas
  83. Appendix 3: The Rule of the Incas, Following Dates Provided by Sarmiento de Gamboa
  84. Appendix 4: The Incas of Cuzco, Following Information Provided by Sarmiento de Gamboa
  85. Notes
  86. Glossary
  87. Bibliography
  88. Index