Terry Deary - Horrible Histories The Incredible Incas

Early Incan timeline

11,000 BC The first people settle in the area we now call Peru.

1250 BC Tribes of people begin to form in the Andes. Theyre called things like Chavin and Chimu, Nazca and Tiahuanaco.

AD For a couple of hundred years the people from the Huari region will boss the western Andes. With them comes the spread of mummy burial. (Thats corpses wrapped in cloth, not burying your mother.)

The Huari have gone (in a bit of a Huari) and the people split into tribes again. Most of these little states are no bigger than a single valley.

1105 Around this time the first Incan lord, Sinchi Roca, begins to rule his tribe, but his people are not very powerful yet.

1370 The Chimu people are the biggest bullying bosses in Peru. Theyre led by Nancen Pinco who lives in Chan Chan. It seems as if these Chimu built a new palace for each new ruler and kept the old palaces going after the rulers died.

1438 The little Incan tribe starts to grow quickly and that means trouble. Over the next fifty years the incredible Incas will conquer all the other tribes and rule them.

Incan Empire timeline

1100 The Incas start to spread out and conquer other people. Maybe a few years of dry weather left them low on food so they had to go out and pinch it.

1438 The Chanca people attack the Incas. Theyre defeated but the invasion starts the Incas fighting amongst themselves.

1492 Chris Columbus stumbles across America. Hell soon be followed by Spanish conquistadors wholl conquer the South American peoples. They havent reached the Incan lands yet but give them time.

1525 A terrible plague sweeps through the Incan homeland probably a disease like measles or smallpox brought from Europe. The Spanish arent in Peru yet but their germs are!

Later well see what happens when the Spanish arrive