Late Middle Ages · South America · War

1457

Tupac Inca Yupanqui Begins Conquests

1457

Pachacuti's son began military campaigns that would extend Inca control into what is now Ecuador and northern Chile. Quechua became the lingua franca of the Andes under his reach. His logistical system of storehouses along the royal road would supply his armies for years, a coordination no contemporary European state matched.

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Before and after in South America

Before: 1448: Machu Picchu Construction Begins
After: 1460: Inca Conquest of Lake Titicaca

Before and after in War

Before: 1456: Athens Falls to the Ottomans
After: 1458: Songhai Forces Seize Timbuktu

Era

Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.