Pachacuti — He Who Shakes the Earth

He inherited a small regional kingdom under threat of conquest. In fifty years, he built the largest empire in the Americas, conquering from Ecuador to Chile along a spine of mountain terrain that defeated every army that had ever tried to hold it. Pachacuti — whose name means Earth-Shaker — built Machu Picchu as a royal estate and religious sanctuary, constructed the Temple of the Sun in Cusco, reorganized the entire Andean economy around the mit'a labor system that built 40,000 kilometers of roads without the wheel, and created a governing bureaucracy sophisticated enough to administer ten million people without writing. He is the Inca equivalent of Augustus Caesar — the man who turned a collection of conquered territories into a coherent empire.

These signs carry the Inca sun symbol, the royal masapaycha headband, the mountain city, and the name that means the man who changed the world.