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  • Introduction : Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa and The History of the Incas / Brian S. Bauer and Jean-Jacques Decoster
  • Second part of the general history called Indica / Edited by Brian S. Bauer and Vania Smith
  • Cover letter to King Philip II of Spain
  • Division of the history
  • origin fable of these barbarous Indians of Peru, according to their blind opinions
  • fable about the second age and the creation of these barbarous Indians, according to their account
  • Ancient tribes of the provinces of Peru and its regions
  • First settlers of the Cuzco Valley
  • How the Incas began to tyrannize the lands of the tribes
  • origin fable of the Incas of Cuzco
  • route that these companies of the Incas took to the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they mix with the history
  • entry of the Incas into the Cuzco Valley and the fables that they tell about it there
  • disagreements between Manco Capac and the Alcabizas over the fields
  • life of Cinchi Roca, the second Inca, begins
  • life of Lloqui Yupanqui, the third Inca
  • life of Mayta Capac, the fourth Inca
  • life of Capac Yupanqui, the fifth Inca
  • life of Inca Roca, the sixth Inca
  • life of Tito Cusi Hualpa, whom they commonly call Yahuar Huacac
  • What happened after the Ayarmacas kidnapped Tito Cusi Hualpa
  • How it became known that Yahuar Huacac was alive
  • Yahuar Huacac Inca Yupanqui, the seventh Inca, begins the Incaship only after the death of his father
  • life of Viracocha, the eighth Inca
  • provinces and towns that Viracocha Inca, the eighth Inca, conquered and tyrannized
  • life of Inca Yupanqui, or Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, the ninth Inca
  • Chancas attack Cuzco
  • second victory that Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui had over the Chancas
  • Inca Yupanqui Inca raises himself as Inca and takes the tassel without the consent of his father
  • Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the city of Cuzco
  • Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui rebuilds the House of the Sun and establishes new idols in it
  • Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates [the area] two leagues around Cuzco
  • Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui kills his older brother named Inca Urcon
  • 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
  • other nations that Inca Yupanqui conquered by himself and with Inca Roca
  • Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui endows the house of the sun with great wealth
  • Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of Collasuyu
  • Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends [Capac Yupanqui] to conquer the provinces of Chinchaysuyu
  • Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui establishes mitimaes in all the lands he had conquered
  • Collas, sons of Chuchic Capac, rise up against Inca Yupanqui, seeking their freedom
  • Amaru Topa Inca and Apu Paucar Usno continue the conquest of the Collao and defeat the Collas once again
  • Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui appoints his son Topa Inca Yupanqui as his successor
  • Pachacuti arms his son Topa Inca as a knight
  • Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui sends his son Topa Inca Yupanqui to conquer Chinchaysuyu
  • Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui inspects the provinces conquered by him and his captains
  • Topa Inca Yupanqui sets out a second time by order of his father to conquer what remained of Chinchaysuyu
  • death of Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
  • life of Topa Inca Yupanqui, the tenth Inca
  • Topa Inca Yupanqui conquers the province of the Andes
  • Topa Inca Yupanqui goes to conquer and put down the risen Collas
  • Topa Inca makes the yanayacos
  • Topa Inca Yupanqui orders a second inspection of the land and does other things
  • Topa Inca builds the fortress of Cuzco
  • death of Topa Inca Yupanqui
  • life of Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca
  • They give the tassel of Inca to Huayna Capac, the eleventh Inca
  • first things that Huayna Capac did after being invested as Inca
  • Huayna Capac conquers the Chachapoyas
  • Huayna Capac inspects all the land from Quito to Chile
  • Huayna Capac wages war on the Quitos, Pastos, Carangues, Cayambes, and Guancabilicas
  • Chiriguanas leave to wage war in Peru against those conquered by the Incas
  • What Huayna Capac did after those wars
  • life of Huascar Inca, the last Inca, and that of Atahualpa
  • Huascar Inca leaves in person to fight against Chalco Chima and Quizquiz, Atahualpa's captains
  • battle between the forces of Atahualpa and Huascar and the imprisonment of Huascar
  • What Chalco Chima and Quizquiz said to Huascar Inca and the others of his group
  • cruelties that Atahualpa ordered be committed against the defeated and captured men of Huascar
  • News of the Spaniards reached Atahualpa
  • Spaniards reach Cajamarca and capture Atahualpa, who orders that Huascar be killed, and he also dies
  • Noting how these Incas were oath-breakers and tyrants against their own, in addition to being against the natives of the land
  • Summary account of the time that the Incas of Peru lasted
  • Statement of the proofs and verification of this history
  • App. 1. Sample translation
  • App. 2. Editions of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa's The History of the Incas
  • App. 3. rule of the Incas, following dates provided by Sarmiento de Gamboa
  • App. 4. Incas of Cuzco, following information provided by Sarmiento de Gamboa.