1,405 CE – 1,433 CE · Seven Ming maritime expeditions
Voyages in the early part of the same century.
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Cusco: a fifteenth-century Inca capital
c. 1,400 CE – 1,500 CE
Inca rulers remodelled Cusco as an imperial capital in the fifteenth century. The city’s older occupation and later colonial and modern histories extend far beyond this selected chapter.
Fifteenth-century capital and urban remodelling
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Inca Cusco belongs near Ming voyages and Gutenberg, not beside the first pyramids.
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Overlapping in time
1,454 CE – 1,455 CE · Printing of the Gutenberg Bible
Printing in Europe during this capital phase.
rulers remodelled Cusco as an imperial in the fifteenth century. The city’s older occupation and later colonial and modern histories extend far beyond this selected chapter.
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