Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire
Cusco grows into pre-Columbian America's largest state
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Pachacuti, ruler of Cusco, repelled the Chanka invasion and began turning a small kingdom into the empire of Tawantinsuyu. Within a century the Incas built the largest state of pre-Columbian America, with some 40,000 km of roads.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — 9 years earlier
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — 12 years later
Middle East
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — 15 years later
Asia
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — 8 years later
Oceania
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — 7 years later
Alive at the time
- Johannes Gutenberg (aged 38)
- Mehmed II (aged 6)
- Sejong the Great (aged 41)
- Charles VII (aged 35)
- Murad II (aged 34)
- Pachacuti (aged 20)
- Louis XI (aged 15)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 2)
- Ulugh Beg (aged 44)
- Ashikaga Yoshinori (aged 44)