Great Andean civilizations

The human groups that inhabited the Northern Andes, which are the territories of Colombia and Ecuador, came to have a state government system. In the south-east and south of the Andes of Bolivia, north of Argentina, north and central Chile there were no states. The conquering empires arose in the central Andes of Peru and Bolivia.

CHAVIN CULTURE

NAZCA CULTURE

MOCHE OR MOCHICA EMPIRE

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Its most famous archaeological ruin is the most famous in the city of Chavín de Huántar, built around 900 BC.

They made Spondylus shell from the Ecuadorian coast through caravans of merchants

It developed in the North of Peru from 900 to 200 BC.

Religion was based on terror, because their Gods made offerings like beheading humans.

The king, and the high priest beheaded the prisoners as a gift to the gods.

The empire restless a large part of the north coast of Peru and was consolidated between the 1st and 6th centuries.

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They have as a shamanic ritual in the astronomical alignment, they made
kilometer lines in the Nazca pampas, forming figures of men, animals and plants

This civilization managed to bring water from the mountains and it took more than 40 aqueducts, some of them underground to prevent evaporation.

Consolidated from the I to the VI century on the south coast of Peru and also extended to the Sierra region

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TIAHUANACO CULTURE

The capital is Tiahuanaco, and its location is north of Lake Titicaca

This civilization was the pioneer in Bronze

This empire lasted two and a half millennia from 1500 BEFORE CHRIST. at 950 AD, and suddenly collapsed.

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