Abstract
When the Spaniards entered the Inca Empire in 1532, a civil war raged between the sons of the last Inca ruler Guayna Capac, Guascar and Atagualpa. This war is still insufficiently investigated. During the first phase of the conflict, both parties fought not only against each other, but undertook campaigns in the eastern and western slopes of the Andes in present-day Ecuador and northern Peru. This article investigates the objectives and courses of these military actions and raises the question why they appeared attractive and necessary within the structures of Inca politics and organization. These secondary theatres of war reveal something about the complexity of the dispute between Atagualpa and Guascar and also about the duration of the civil war.
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