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Chapter 12 - Regional Diversification and Development: 200 BC–AD 600

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2024

Karen Olsen Bruhns
Karen Olsen Bruhns
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San Francisco State University
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The end of the first millennium BC saw the rise of a series of civilizations in the central Andes and in Ecuador supported by irrigation works, connected by elaborate road systems, featuring growing populations and monumental architecture, elaborate “royal: burials, and continual warfare. The outstanding cultures of this time period are those of the Moche or Mochica in the north of Peru, the Nazca in the south, and a series of states in the Altiplano which gave rise to Tiahuanaco as well as the Chorrera derived cultures o the Ecuadorian coast.

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Ancient South America , pp. 194 - 235
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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