939 AH
Pizarro captures the Inca emperor Atahualpa at Cajamarca, takes a room full of gold as ransom, then kills him. The Andes fall to Spain.
How it touches Islam American silver soon flooded the world; historians link it to the inflation that shook Ottoman money in the late 1500s.
Francisco PizarroAtahualpa
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