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Pachacuti

Also called: Pachacutec, Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui

Ninth Inca ruler (r. c. 1438–1471) who rebuilt Cusco and turned the Inca state into an empire by conquest

Originally named Cusi Yupanqui, he was a son of the Inca ruler Viracocha. When the Chanka attacked Cusco, he is said to have stayed and beaten them after his father fled, and then became king. He rebuilt Cusco in the shape of a puma, embellished the sun temple of Coricancha and resettled people across conquered lands. With his son Topa Inca he conquered the peoples around Lake Titicaca and along the coast.

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1438 – 1527Expansion of the Inca Empiremonarch
At Cusco in the Andes, Pachacuti became king and set out to conquer. The Inca state became an empire stretching some 4,000 km from Ecuador to Chile.

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Turkic-Islamic Empires and Other Civilizations1000 – 1533
From the Ghaznavid raids on India to the Mughal Empire and Suleiman I — five centuries in which Turkic-led Islamic empires took western Asia and India, while Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas raised civilisations of their own