The Fall of the Incas: Death to the Emperor (Part 3)

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• 00:10

  Atahualpa speaks.

• 00:13

  Atahualpa needs.

• 00:15

  Atahualpa commands.

• 00:17

  Bring him gold.

• 00:19

  From the palaces, from the temples, from all buildings in the great places.

• 00:24

  From walls of pleasure and roofs of omen.

• 00:28

  From floors of feasting and ceilings of death.

• 00:32

  Bring him the gold of Quito and Pacha Maka Kaka Kaka.

• 00:35

  Bring him the gold of Cusco and Conic Hancha.

• 00:39

  Bring him the gold of Vilcanota.

• 00:43

  Bring him the gold of Kolai, of Amarius and Arakipa.

• 00:48

  Bring him the gold of the Chimu.

• 00:51

  Put up a mountain of gold and free your son from his prison of clouds.

• 00:58

  So that was Christopher Plummer playing Atahualpa, Emperor of the Incas, in Peter Shaffer's play,

• 01:05

  The Royal Hunt of the Sun, which we've been hearing a lot of in this series.

• 01:08

  And Atahualpa in that scene is summoning his people to one of the most memorable endeavors in the whole of world history.

• 01:19

  And it's the kind of scene that maybe as a child you have a book of world history and you read about it and you think,

• 01:25

  wow, that's mad that couldn't possibly have happened.

• 01:28

  And that is exactly what happened to me.

• 01:30

  I had a book of world history and there was Atahualpa with Francisco Pizarro.

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