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Had Atahualpa sent envoys to conduct negotiations at a distance, he might have frustrated Pizarro's ambitions.

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“If he had sent envoys to keep the negotiations at a distance,”
“he may have been able to frustrate Pizarro's ambitions. And as the head of what remained an integrated Inca empire,”
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