The Inca (In Our Time)
1438 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the people of Cusco, in modern Peru, established an empire along the Andes down to the Pacific under their supreme leader Pachacuti. Before him, their control grew slowly from C13th and was at its peak after him when Pizarro arrived with his Conquistadors and captured their empire for Spain in 1533. The image, above, is of Machu Picchu which was built for emperor Pachacuti as an estate in C15th.
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- Spanish Reconquista last campaign (1482)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Martin Luther (1483)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Reign of Mehmed II (1451)