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by circlefavshape 71 days ago
You're missing a zero. It was EIGHTY thousand, not 8000.
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I thought so too, but wikipedia says 8k
Ah weird - the text of the page says Atahualpa had 80k troops, but then the infobox describes the Inca forces as 3-8k in size. I guess not all the 80k were involved in the battle