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The Incas and empire

900CE

PRE-INCA TRIBE 900 CE

The Killke culture becomes, for some 300 years, the dominant group in the Cusco region of what is today Peru. The people build a huge fortress called Saksaywaman.

1200

INCA REGION FOUNDED 1200

Although there is no hard evidence, legend says Inca warlord Manco Cápac leads his tribe from a cave in the high mountains to the fertile Cusco Valley region.

Establishing a settlement 1201

The Incas begin to construct and develop what would eventually

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