Major conflict1471 – 1493 · 22 years
Topa Inca's Expansion Wars
Andes · Peru · Bolivia · Chile · Argentina
Topa Inca's military campaigns expanded the Inca Empire into Ecuador and Chile (1471-1493).
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
What happened
Topa Inca succeeded Pachacuti and continued imperial expansion. His campaigns conquered northern Ecuador territories and extended Inca control southward into Chile. Northern expansion incorporated new ethnic groups and established Inca administrative control over vast new territories.
Why it mattered
Topa Inca's expansion achieved Inca hegemony over unprecedented Andean territories. The expanded empire created the imperial state confronting Spanish conquest.
Belligerents1
- Inca Empire
ON THE MAPInca Empire
Sources
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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