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The Inca rose to power in a power vacuum from the collapse of two earlier tribes, the Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco) and the Wari (Huari), whose downfall led to an environment of minstates and chiefdoms. These minstates later went on to become the Inca.
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Leader Manco Capac founds the city of Cuzco in the Cuzco Valley region, and the Inca start to live there, not expanding until 200 years after Cuzco was founded.
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The Inca's landmass was expanded by leader Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, who began to conquer surrounding tribes, then reorganized the government into the Tawantinsuyu, then builds a city called Machu Picchu.
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A large section of the Inca die from Smallpoxbrought by the Spanish, including emperor Huayna Capac over the course of a few years.
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The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro seized the Inca during their civil war, and the Inca fought them off until 1572 when they all died.
