Major conflict1438

Pachacuti's War Against the Chanca

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Cusco · Peru

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Decisive Inca victory under Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui against the Chanca confederation. This battle transformed Pachacuti into a military genius and began the rapid Inca expansion that created an empire.

Belligerents2

Inca Empire
Chanca confederation

ON THE MAPInca Empire

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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