Eras

The Inca Imperial Period

Citation Formats

General Reference

History Atlas. "The Inca Imperial Period." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-history.interactiveatlas.org/eras/inca-imperial-period.

APA Style

History Atlas. (n.d.). The Inca Imperial Period. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-history.interactiveatlas.org/eras/inca-imperial-period

BibTeX

@misc{historyatlas-the-inca-imperial-period,
  author = {History Atlas},
  title = {The Inca Imperial Period},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-history.interactiveatlas.org/eras/inca-imperial-period},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

The Inca imperial period was the era of rapid Inca expansion from the Cusco heartland into the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, ended by the Spanish conquest that began in 1532 and concluded with the fall of the last independent Inca state four decades later.

Facts

Start Year

1438 1

End Year

1572 1

Geographic Scope

The Andes of western South America, centered on Cusco, the empire's administrative, political and military center. 1

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