May 23, 2018 · Tiahuanaco T he Inca civilization of South America, unlike the Mayan, was still at its height when conquistadors arrived. One of the conquistadors, Cieza de Leon (1518 – 1560), followed trails from the coast of Peru into the foothills of the Andes and learned from natives about the ruins of a once great city high in the mountains. He presumed that it was an old Inca …

Tiwanaku Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco) was a pre-Columbian Andean empire whose most important ceremonial and political center was the city of the same name located on the Altiplano (high plateau) in present-day Bolivia. Although there is some disagreement among scholars as to the exact dates of Tiwanaku culture, it is generally accepted to have been the dominant society in …

Inca Empire The origins of the Inca civilization lie in the Cuzco region of modern-day Peru, though some archaeologists maintain that its beginnings are also to be found in the region previously dominated by the Huari and in Tiahuanaco. In any case, among the various groups who constituted small kingdoms in the region of Cuzco during the thirteenth century, only the Incas …

HuariHuari (Wari), the earliest recognized pre-Columbian empire in Peru and the name assigned to a large Middle Horizon (ca. 650–1000 ce) city located in the eastern Ayacucho Valley that is recognized as its capital. The size and complexity of Huari remained unrecognized because it was overshadowed by early colonial descriptions of the Bolivian site of Tiwanaku in the Lake …

May 17, 2018 · The ruins of Tiahuanaco indicate that the Altiplano was the site of one of the great pre-Colombian civilizations. Before the Spanish invasion in 1532, the Quechua had subsumed the Aymara into the Inca Empire.