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�Battle of Cusco |
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Pachac�tec |
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With Pachac�tec (1415?-1471) the Imperial Period and period of expansion started. Up till then the Incas were one of the more then twenty tribes that lived in the area of the Huatanay river. |
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Inca Yupanqui (the name Pachac�tec was yet to come) was the youngest son of Inca Viracocha and Mama Runtu Caya. He had an elder brother, Urcon, who was heir to the throne. |
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Viracocha, who claimed he was a descendant from the sungod Viracocha, had raided the surrounding tribes once too often. The Chanca's, who on their turn believed to be descendants of the Divine Lion of the Mountain, decided it was time to teach him a lesson. |
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They attacked Cusco in 1438. Viracocha, who saw that his army was outnumbered, took his son Urcon with him and they fled into the mountains, leaving Cusco on it's own. |
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Yupanqui didn't want to surrender just like that, so he organized a large army and instead of waiting, he himself launched an attack. By fortune he got a hold of the statue of the Lion of the Mountain, that the Chanca's were carrying along with them, and with the capture of this Divine statue, the Chanca's lost faith and fled. |
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After this victory, Viracocha and Urcon, simply disappeared from the scenes, although it's uncertain what has happened to them.Yupanqui became the new Inca. He later came to be known as Pachat�tec, he who transforms the Earth. But not yet, first it was time to celebrate, so let the Chicha be served..... |
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