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GREAT ANDEAN CULTURES - Coggle Diagram
GREAT ANDEAN CULTURES
COMMON CHARACTERISITCS
They had besides the corn, another great food source, the tubers, especially the potato, unknown in Mesoamerica.
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They had llamas and alpacas that provided wool, meat and means of loading, which did not exist in Mesoamerica.
NAZCA CULTURE
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Bring water from the mountains for more than 40 aqueducts
Underground aqueducts to avoid evaporation.
Made lines in the Nazca pampas
Figures of men, animals and plants.
COMMON TRAITS
They applied dehydration techniques (such as chuño or "chuna potato" and stuffed llama meat charki) and food storage (silos dug into the ground).
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Its most famous archaeological ruin is the city of Chavin de Huantar, built around 900 B.C.
Their religion was presided by shamans Ceremonies consumed hallucinogens (cactus, herbs or barks).
TIAHUANACO CULTURE
It lasted two and a half millennium, from 1500 B.C. to 950 A. D, and it collapsed suddenly.
Its capital was Tiahuanaco
Its territory included almost all the Andean Altiplano to the Pacific Ocean coast (current Bolivia, Peru and Chile)
Pioneer in Bronze production, which gave it great military advantage.
Joint empire with the Wari empire.
WARI EMPIRE
Center of the Andes from 600 to 1200 AD.
Alliance with Tiahuanaco turned the Empire into a very extensive political unit.
From VII to X century
Its population reached 70,000 people. In the XI century this empire suddenly collapsed.