Pachacuti
11th Inca Emperor
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He took a small Andean chiefdom and turned it into an empire. Pachacuti — the name means "the turn of the world" — did exactly that: within a generation Cusco went from regional player to imperial power, sprawling from the Amazon slopes to the Pacific coast. Machu Picchu was likely his estate.
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Pachacuti was the ninth Sapa Inca of Cusco, rising to power after the Chanka–Inca War. From that foothold he launched conquests in all directions: south to Lake Titicaca and Lake Poopó, east toward the Amazon rainforest, north to the Quito basin, and along the coast from Tumbes possibly as far as Tarapacá. He built the Inti Raymi festival to mark the southern hemisphere's new year and expanded the cult of Inti, the sun god. Within three generations the dominion he set in motion overtook the Chimú empire and claimed a sizeable slice of western South America. After his death his deeds lived on t…
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