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Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu)

1438 – 1533
EmpireSouth America

The largest empire of the pre-Columbian Americas, a 4,000-km Andean colossus of stone roads, terraced mountains and storehouses ruled from Cusco, the navel of the world.

Shattered by a succession war (1529-32) and Pizarro's tiny army: Atahualpa was seized at Cajamarca in 1532 and executed in 1533, Cusco fell that November, and the imperial state ceased to exist — surviving only as the Neo-Inca rump at Vilcabamba until 1572.

Borders in 1533 · drawn from 6 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 6 border frames for Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1438 · 1451 · 1472 · 1493 · 1529 · 1533.

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