Inca Empire Reaches Ecuador

1470

Tupac Inca Yupanqui's armies pushed northward into the territories of the Canari and other Ecuadorian highland peoples, extending the Tawantinsuyu to its greatest northern reach across thousands of miles of Andean cordillera. Quechua was imposed as the administrative language, Inca storehouses built along the royal road at regular intervals, and local elites were brought to Cuzco as honored hostages. The Andes were being unified by logistics and road engineering as much as by war.