Pachacuti
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c. 1418 – 1471 · 53 years · Cusco · Americas
Transformed the kingdom of Cusco into the Inca Empire; Machu Picchu is believed to have been built for him.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johannes Gutenberg — inventor of the printing press, 18 years older
- Leonardo da Vinci — painter, scientist and inventor, 34 years younger
- Joan of Arc — heroine of the Hundred Years' War, 6 years older
- Louis XI — the "universal spider" who pieced France together, 5 years younger
- Charles VII — king under whom the Hundred Years’ War ended, 15 years older
- Isabella I of Castile — Queen of Castile, 33 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan III — Grand Prince of Moscow, 22 years younger
- Andrei Rublev — icon painter, 58 years older
- Vasily II the Blind — grand prince blinded in a dynastic civil war, 3 years older
- Sophia Palaiologina — Grand Princess of Moscow, 37 years younger
Middle East
- Mehmed II — Ottoman sultan, 14 years younger
- Murad II — sultan who crushed the crusaders at Varna, 14 years older
- Bayezid II — sultan who took in the Jews expelled from Spain, 29 years younger
Africa
- Askia Muhammad I — Emperor of Songhai, 25 years younger
Asia
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa — shogun of the Ōnin War and the Silver Pavilion, 18 years younger
- Sejong the Great — King of Joseon Korea, 21 years older
- Zheng He — admiral and explorer, 47 years older
- Ulugh Beg — ruler and astronomer, 24 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshinori — shogun chosen by lot and murdered by his own vassal, 24 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshimochi — shogun who broke off tributary trade with Ming China, 32 years older
Americas
- Christopher Columbus — navigator, 33 years younger
- Nezahualcoyotl — ruler of Texcoco, poet, 16 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1429 Joan of Arc relieves Orléans — aged 11, Europe
- c. 1438 Pachacuti founds the Inca Empire — aged 20, Americas
- c. 1445 Extinction of the moa — aged 27, Oceania
- 1446 King Sejong promulgates Hangul — aged 28, Asia
- c. 1450 Gutenberg's printing press — aged 32, Europe
- c. 1450 Building of Machu Picchu — aged 32, Americas
- c. 1450 Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy — aged 32, Americas
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople — aged 35, Middle East