The Inca tried to be diplomatic with the Spanish and Atahualpa even offered a ransom for his own life. The Spanish were not satisfied with just the ransom of gold and silver and they killed Atahualpa and continued on to take control of all of the former Incan territory.
Explanation:
The Inca were a complex civilization at the time the Spanish arrived in the Americas with a system for storing agricultural yields and exacting taxes in the form of food and goods from other settlements. Pizarro first arrived with some men on the North Coast of Peru and returned to Spain with some samples of gold in the hopes of gathering a bigger expedition that would be financed by the King. Pizarro returned and set off for the Incan city of Cajamarca to meet the leader at the time Atahualpa.
In the first encounters with the Conquistadores, the Inca elite tried to negotiate and conciliate with the Spaniards by being diplomatic at first. Then the Spanish captured Atahualpa and held him prisoner and the emperor offered rooms full of silver and gold in exchange for his freedom. Unfortunately, the Spanish betrayed this arrangement and they had Atahualpa executed. The Spanish crown became the wealthiest power in the world by the late 1500s after the Conquest as countless quantities of silver and gold were extracted from the Americas.
