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Legends has told that small groups of people emerge from caves where they lived near lake Titicaca. The first ruler would be Manco Capac where he lead 10 ayllus.
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Pachacuti is the ninth emperor of the inca empire. when the incas where fighting a war against the Chancas Pachacuti and his soliders were close to loosing but a bunch of rocks came tumbling down and winning the war. Pachacuti became the ninth emperor where he expanded the empire Ecuador to Chile. he also introduced the empire to the new type of government Tahuantinsuyu.
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Machu Pichu is a city that just started being built at this time.
Machu Pichu has four parts- agricultural,religious, nobility, and the residential section -
Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro landed in Peru in 1532 where he found the inca empire
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in the year 1529 Pizzaro went back to spain to get permission to conquer the incas. Pizzaro asked for more men to help bring down the incas. Even though the inca empire were far outnumbered they were also affected by small pox from the spanish people
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Manco Inca was put up as emperor becuase the spanish killed his brother (former emperor). He would cooperated with the spanish only for a little while until he rebelled. He would sometimes launch attacks and lead revolts against the Spaniards.
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After 36 years of fighting and leading revolts against the Spanish. they finally came to the point where Manco Inca army was found. the spanish foound them and killed them. all of inca life was destoryed.
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Huaca Rajada, a huge ceremonial jewelled tomb of a warrior priest, near Sipan Lambayeque Valley
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there were excavations at Dos Cabezas which is a site that was inhabited from around 150-500 CE which revealed the first out of three tombs holding the remains of three Elite Moche
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The Chavin culture flourished from 900 BC to 200 BC
