Tarascan / Purépecha Empire

Overview

The Purépecha Empire, also known as the Kingdom of Tzintzuntzan, was a polity in pre-Columbian Mexico. Its territory roughly covered the geographic area of the present-day Mexican state of Michoacán, as well as eastern Jalisco, southern Guanajuato, and western Guerrero. At the time of the Spanish conquest, it was the second-largest state in Mesoamerica. The state is also colloquially known as the Tarascan Empire.

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Borders & accuracy

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

• SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
• DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
• SNAPSHOT1500
• POLITY TYPEstate

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

• Mongol Conquests1206–1368
  World-changing · 40M dead
• Timurid Invasions1368–1405
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• American Indian Wars1500–1800
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Spanish Conquest of Mexico1519–21
  World-changing · 3.6M dead
• Hundred Years' War1337–1453
  World-changing · 3.0M dead