Late Middle Ages · South America · Politics
1438
Pachacuti Becomes Sapa Inca
1438
Repelling a Chanka invasion that should have destroyed Cuzco, the young prince seized the throne from his father and began the most explosive imperial expansion in human history. Within his lifetime the Inca would stretch from Quito to central Chile. He also redesigned Cuzco to look, from above, like a puma.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.