His conquests where so successful that he is sometimes referred to as "The Napoleon<span> of the </span>Andes<span>." When Pachacuti died in 1471, the empire stretched from </span>Chile<span> to the south and </span>Ecuador<span> to the north also including the modern countries of </span>Peru<span> and </span>Bolivia<span> as well as most of northern </span>Argentina<span>.</span>
The official emergence of the Inca Empire happened, according to the historians, with the reign of Sapa Inca (term in Quechua for emperor) Pachacuti. During his reign, the Incas initiated the territorial conquest of the Andean region, process that was continued by other Incas emperors. The Incas succeeded in building a vastly territorial empire that stretched over 4,000 kilometers, from part of Colombia to northern Chile and Argentina. The conquered peoples were obliged to pay taxes, and the dominated regions were integrated into the empire by means of the construction of roads (the Incas possessed more than 40 thousand kilometers of roads), by order of Sapa Inca, and culturally absorbed with the displacement of Quechua population for these regions. The great empire of the Incas was called by themselves of Tawantisuyu (the Empire of the four directions, in Quechua)
In the 1870s, Democrats gradually returned to power in the Southern states, sometimes as a result of elections in which paramilitary groups intimidated opponents, attacking blacks or preventing them from voting. ... White Democrats had regained political power in every Southern state.