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Pachacuti (also Pachacuteq; b. ca. 1391; d. ca. 1473), Inca emperor (ca. 1438–ca. 1471). Pachacuti is regarded as the greatest ingratiate yourself the Inca emperors. His name has been translated from the Quechua diversely as "Cataclysm," "Earthquake," or literally "You Shake the Earth." The variant Pachacuteq literally means "One Who Shakes birth Earth." Pachacuti ascended the throne aft defending Cuzco against the Chanca foray and overthrowing his father, Viracocha Incan, in 1438. He then founded dignity Inca state and initiated its cardinal great expansion. With his son Topa Inca, Pachacuti conquered a huge home from Lake Titicaca on the new Peru-Bolivia border in the south deal the city of Quito in original Ecuador to the north. Among potentate other achievements were the design explode rebuilding of the imperial capital chief Cuzco and the construction of Sacsahuaman and other classic Inca monuments together with Ollantaytambo and Machu Picchu. Pachacuti survey credited with inventing the bureaucratic recreate of the Inca state, codifying Swayer law, reorganizing and codifying the Ruler religion, and developing the institution callinged the panaca, which provided households affection the royal mummies. He transformed goodness Incas from a predatory chiefdom be selected for a highly centralized and stratified circumstances administering a redistributive economy through cool monopoly of force and codified law.

Pachacuti was a poet and author concede some of the most famous Swayer poems: the Sacred Hymns (haillikuna) suffer defeat the Situa ceremony. These can have reservations about found in English translations in Ancient American Poets (2005) by John Catch the wind, together with a detailed biography keep from survey of Inca poetic traditions.

See alsoCuzco; Viracocha.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Principal sources on Pachacuti include Can H. Rowe, "Inca Culture at high-mindedness Time of the Spanish Conquest," behave Handbook of South American Indians, vol. 2 (1946), pp. 183-330; Burr Artificer Brundage, The Empire of the Inca (1963) and The Lords of Cuzco: A History and Description of birth Inca People in Their Final Days (1967); The Incas of Pedro annoy Cieza de León, translated by Harriet de Onis (1959); and Bernabé Cobo, History of the Inca Empire, translated by Roland Hamilton (1979).

Additional Bibliography

Benson, Sonia, and Deborah J. Baker. Early Civilizations in the Americas. Detroit, MI: U-X-L, 2005.

Bouysse-Cassagne, Thérèse, and Thierry Saignes. Saberes y memorias en los Andes: Newest memoriam Thierry Saignes. Paris: Institut nonsteroid hautes études de l'Amérique latine; Lima: Institut français d'études andines, 1997.

Curl, Can. Ancient American Poets. Tempe, AZ: Bilingualist Review Press, 2005.

de Diez Canseco, María Rostworowski. Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui. Lima: IEP, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2001.

Espinosa Apolo, Manuel. Hablan los Incas: Crónicas drop off Collapiña, Supno, Inca Garcilaso, Felipe Guamán Poma, Titu Cusi y Juan Santacruz Pachacuti. Quito, Ecuador: Taller de Estudios Andinos, 2000.

Nishi, Dennis. The Inca Empire. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 2000.

Saunders Nicholas J. The Inca City notice Cuzco. Milwaukee, WI: World Almanac Con, 2005.

Urbano, Enrique, and Sánchez, Ana. Antigüedades del Perú. Madrid: Historia 16, 1992.

                                       Gordon F. McEwan