huascar

So I've looked up on the last years of the Inca Empire in Wikipedia and found this very interesting tidbit on Atahualpa's article: So let's say Atahualpa is executed during captivity. By the time Pizarro and his buddies show up in 1531, Huáscar would've been ruling the empire for two years...

I could have this all wrong, and possibly I do, since wikipedia isn't much help and what I know of pre-European American history is iffy at best, so I'm hoping that you learned scholars can help. I've just finished reading Clive Cussler's book, Inca Gold. In this book, which, for a work of...