Thousands of years before the rule of the Inca, the Tiwanaku civilization emerged from the southern shores of Lake Titicaca and reached across the borders of present day Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. The city of Tiwananku is recognized by many Andean scholars as a major center of political, economic, and religious life, and is marked as one of the most important civilizations of the pre-Colombian Americas. Reaching its height from 500 to 900A.D, only its impressive stone monuments remain as evidence
rectangular buildings around a central patio and each site in the complex housed a sunken rectangular temple. Consistencies across Nazca settlement patterns indicate urban planning strategies and monitoring systems. The Incan culture derived from Tiwanaku. Incan empire expanded from its core, Cuzco in the Cuzco Valley. Incan’s ability to cultivate and harvest resulting in techniques for food storage that could last from 3-7 years. Inca’s took the crops of those conquered nations and cultivated them
South America, between 3500BC-2500BC, was inhabited with permanently established villages around the coast and a few groups of hunter-gatherers. Most of the villages prospered near the Pacific coast because the ocean had a rich population of marine life. Improvements in farming helped the growth of population and the expansion of permanent farming villages. The invention of loom weaving, pottery, and the beginnings of a more-classed based society develop because of these improvements. Temple mounds
empire emerged on a high plateau between the Altiplano Mountains. This empire, known as the Tiwanakan, was located on the southeastern side of Lake Titicaca. Tiwanaku was a major center of trade and religion, and its culture spread far beyond what is now present day Bolivia. The Tiwanaku were not a violent culture. To expand its reach, Tiwanaku relied more on political colonization than through conquest. During this time, agriculture was a major source of power. Elites gained control over the population
Our group presentation is on Andean South America and my part is on subsistence. Machu Picchu was controlled by the Inca empire in the southern Pole of Altiplano. In the northern side of the Lake Titicaca basin, they had both alpaca and llama herding as well as potato and quinoa agriculture. The puna grasslands of the higher altiplano were used to graze alpaca and llama. In the coastal regions the Pacific shore yields, millions of small schooling fish such as the anchovies. However, it is surrounded
The Aymara Culture by: Nikole Cole The Aymara are indigenous people from the Andean region of South America. They are located in Bolivia, Peru, and Chile. Archeologists have discovered evidence that they occupied these areas for at least 800 years, up to 5,000 years but most likely descended from previous cultures. They live in the altiplano (high plains) of the Andes Mountains. They lived closely together with their rulers, the Incas. The Aymara also had their own flag that was known as the “Wiphala”;
Part A: Juan Evo Morales Ayma, known by many as Evo, was born on October 26, 1959 in Orinoca, Oruro. His father Dionisio Morales Choque and mother Maria Mamani had in total seven children, two of whom didn’t survive past childhood. His upbringing will later become clear foreshadowing of the way in which he would rule. The house he grew up in was an adobe house, no more than ten by thirteen feet, which had a straw roof. He began working with his father harvesting sugar cane in Argentina at age six
Assignment #5 In this essay we would be discussing the rise of three different empires, the Romans, the Aztecs, and the Incas. Also, explaining what an empire is and how it differs from city-states and territorial states. We would also be describing each of the three empires, in what ways each empire was unique, and if any, what characteristics did each empire share with one or both of the others. “In general, an empire is a super state. It is a state that has conquered and absorbed
and his seven siblings came from the caves of Pacariqtambo. These first Incans were created by the sun god Inti. Their mission was to bring civilization to the world. The final legend is that the god, Viracocha, created man out of clay and stone at Tiwanaku. Viracocha then led the people that he created to Cuzco. Viracocha left the humans to reign from the heaves. Viracocha gave deities to control the lives of humans. The dispute still continues on whether Viracocha, or Inti is the supreme god of the
Are we alone in this universe? Is there anything out there besides us? Probably if you look at the facts and the evidence about our universe. According to NASA, based on data from the Kepler spacecraft there are 60 billion planets that could support life just in our Milky Way galaxy. Spacecraft's dedicated to finding life on other planets such as the Kepler Spacecraft and scientist astronomers at NASA are just some of the things used to gather so much evidence for life existing outside our planet