Inca Empire

Overview

The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The Inca civilisation rose from the Peruvian highlands sometime in the early 13th century. The Portuguese explorer Aleixo Garcia was the first European to reach the Inca Empire in 1524. Later, in 1532, the Spanish began the conquest of the Inca Empire, and by 1572 the last Inca state was fully conquered.

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Borders & accuracy

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

• SOURCECliopatria / Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0)
• DETAILCliopatria / Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0) — Tawantinsuyu peak extent
• SNAPSHOT1525
• POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire14

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• Spanish Conquest of Peru1532–72
  World-changing · 2.0M dead
• Inca Civil War (Huáscar vs Atahualpa)1529–32
  World-changing · 100K dead
• Battle of Cajamarca1532
  World-changing
• Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire1532–72
  Major conflict · 800K dead
• Inca Expansion1438–92
  Major conflict · 300K dead
• Pachacuti's War Against the Chanca1438
  Major conflict
• Early Inca Expansion1438–71
  Major conflict
• Inca Conquest of Chimú1470–71
  Major conflict
• Inca-Chimor Conquest1470–76
  Major conflict
• Topa Inca's Expansion Wars1471–93
  Major conflict
• Huayna Capac's Northern Campaigns1493–1525
  Significant
• Diaguita Resistance to Inca Conquest1471–1532
  Regional
• Incan Provincial Revolts1500–32
  Regional
• Battle of Vilcaconga1533
  Regional