If there was a genius ruler, it was Pachacuti, seriously, dude was the Caesar of South America, extremely underrated in how he managed the Incan Empire and all

If there was a genius ruler, it was Pachacuti, seriously, dude was the Caesar of South America, extremely underrated in how he managed the Incan Empire and all of the infrastructure that was built in his reign. He also directed the creation of the road system in the empire... it would have been interesting to see how he instead of his descendants would have dealt with the Spanish had they arrived when he was alive, I think that the outcome might have been different, at least for the initial wave of Spanish