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The Spanish Conquest of the Inca

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A room-filling price promised for a captive sovereign's freedom (6)
San Miguel de ___, conventionally recognized as Peru's first Spanish-founded city (5)
Cristobal ___ de Castro, royal governor victorious at Chupas in 1542 (4)
Black magic? Charcoal, sulfur and saltpeter behind the invaders' firepower (9)
Cieza de ___, conquest chronicler with a Spanish lion in his name (4)
Highland settlement chosen as the first Spanish capital of Peru in 1534 (5)
Emblem of the invaders' faith, or angry about a thwarted conquest (5)

Bartolome ___, pilot of Pizarro's early voyages, titled 'Pilot of the South Sea' in 1529 (4)
Variola's epidemic, widely credited with weakening the empire before the main invasion (8)
Jesuit chronicler ___ Valera, born to a Spanish father and an Indigenous mother (4)
Dominican friar who offered the Inca ruler a Christian book at Cajamarca in 1532 (8)
The New ___ of 1542 attempted to restrain colonial exploitation of Indigenous people (4)
Dynastic claimant whose defeat left his half brother dominant just before the Spanish seizure of power (7)
Baptismal name of Quispe Sisa, the leading conquistador's Indigenous partner (4)