It was "Atahualpa" who was the Incan emperor who tried to secure his own release from Spanish captivity with vast quantities of gold, since this was the Spanish were most interested in, but he was executed anyway.
Balance of power is talking about the legislative, judicial, and executive branch which were all made to keep each other "balanced out" where they can check other branches and make sure that decisions being made aren't "unconstitutional" so that there wouldn't be one person with total power that could lead to a dictatorship.
Answer: they resolved disputes, upheld civil law, were military leaders, and spiritual leaders.
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