USA HISTORY

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MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS THE OLMECS TO CORTES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In the mid 1400s this ruler began to expand the Inca territory
A
Pachacuti
B
Moctezuma
C
Paca
D
Pizarro
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cusi Inca Yupanqui-who soon took the title Pachacuti-became one of the Inca’s most influential rulers. His military campaigns extended the kingdom to the southern end of the Lake Titicaca Basin, and hundreds of miles north to subject the Cajamarca and Chimu kingdoms.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, also called Pachacutec, (flourished 15th century), Inca emperor (1438–71), an empire builder who, because he initiated the swift, far-ranging expansion of the Inca state, has been likened to Philip II of Macedonia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui (often simply Pachacuti or Pachacutec) was the 9th Inca ruler (r. 1438-1471 CE) who founded their empire with conquests in the Cuzco Valley and beyond. Pachacuti is also credited with founding the site of Machu Picchu.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, Pachakutiq Inka Yupanki, or just Pachacuti is the founder of the modern Inca Empire. He was born in Cusco, Peru in 1438 and died in Cusco in 1471. Pachacuti reigned over the Inca Empire from 1438-1472 as the ninth Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco, which he later made into the Inca Empire.

Detailed explanation-5: -Pachacuti was able to expand the Incan state into an empire through the use of ongoing military campaigns and the formation of alliances. As Pachacuti’s armies conquered peoples, they were assimilated into the Incan Empire.

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