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Great Andean civilizations - Coggle Diagram
Great Andean civilizations
COMMON CHARACTERISITCS
Andean civilizations differ from those of Mesoamerica in several properties:
They had in addition to corn, another great source of food, tubers, especially potatoes, unknown in Mesoamerica.
They used an excavation shovel that was called an Andean foot plow
They used llamas and alpacas that provided them with means of load, meat and wool.
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).
Chavin culture
Its best known archaeological ruin is the metropolis of Chavin de Huantar, built around 900 BC.
MOCHE OR MOCHICA EMPIRE
The monarch, the high priest, and the shamans beheaded the prisoners as a gift to the gods.
Its ceramics represent people and animals and their punishing Gods.
Nazca cuture
Appeared from I to the VI century on the south coast of Peru.
Extended to the Sierra region
Brings water from the mountains for well over 40 aqueducts
Underground aqueducts to avoid evaporation
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
TIAHUANACO CULTURE
Its territory included almost all the Andean Altiplano to the Pacific Ocean coast (current Bolivia, Peru and Chile)
WARI EMPIRE
Center of the Andes from 600 to 1200 AD.
Alliance with Tiahuanaco turned the Empire into a very extensive political unit.
CHIMU EMPIRE
Caracteristic
When the Wari empire fell, the Chimor emerged
Located at the north part of what is now
Peru. Its rulers were treated like Gods
