The Inca Empire

By CJMorrison
  • 1200

    The Inca tribe founded the city of Cuzco in the Cuzco Valley region

  • 1200

    The Inca tribe was led by Manco Capac

  • Period: 1200 to 1400

    The Inca live in and around the city of Cuzco

  • 1438

    Pachacuti becomes the leader of the Inca

  • 1471

    Pachacuti's son, Tupac Inca becomes emporer of the Inca

  • 1476

    Tupac defeats the Chuma empire and their lands become part of the Inca empire

  • 1493

    Tupac's son, Huayna Capac, becomes emporer

  • 1525

    Huayna Capac dies from a plague

  • 1525

    The sons of Huayna Capac, Atahualpa and Huascar, fight over the crown

  • Period: 1525 to 1530

    The Inca empire is in a civil war wover who should take the crown

  • 1532

    Atahualpa defeats his brother and becomes emporer

  • 1532

    Spanish conquestidor, Francisco Pizarro, arrives in Peru to capture Atahualpa and to hold him for ransom

  • 1533

    The Spanish execute Atahualpa and make Manco Inca emporer

  • 1535

    Francisco Pizzaro founds the city of Lima, Peru names it as the capital of the region

  • 1537

    Manco Inca flees to Vilcabamba and forms the Inca government separate from the Spanish

  • 1541

    Francisco Pizzaro is killed

  • 1572

    The Spanish kill the last of the Inca emporers, Tupac Amaru, which was the end of the Inca empire