Huari

Civilization Huari (or Wari ) refers to people which flower during the pre-incaïque period of the average horizon. It occurs with the Life century of the Christian era in the area of Ayacucho located in the the Andes of the south of the current Peru. The capital of the same name is localized close to the modern city of Ayacucho, in Peru. This city was the center of a civilization which covered many highlands and with the coast of the modern Peru. Initially, their territory extended to include the center of the old oracle of Pachacamac, although it seems to have largely found its autonomy. Later then it increases to include many the territories of the old culture Moche and the late culture Chimu. The remainder best preserved culture huari exist close to the town of Quinua in the ruins waris. Also famous are the ruins waris of Pikillaqta (the “chip city”) at a south-eastern short distance of Cuzco “on the way” towards the lake Titicaca which dates from the period huari before Incas do not seize the power in this area.

The expansion of this antique kingdom was done initially in direction of the coast towards the very important religious center of Pachacamac which seems to have kept a strong autonomy then. Later, Huari extend towards north on the grounds from the old culture Moche and where civilization Chimú will develop thereafter. With its apogee, civilization huari extends on all the coast and the high plateaus from the center from Peru.

Huari were contemporary civilization of Tiahuanaco which developed on the Bolivian high plateau , on banks of the Lac Titicaca. These two civilizations only were recently differentiated by the archeologists because of the many common points existing between the two cultures in particular in the artistic field.

It would seem that two civilizations were in contact only during one about fifty year during which they clashed sporadically. A possible source of the conflicts is the presence of mines in extreme cases of influence of the two cultures. Huari appear to be weakened by this competition, and declined in IXe century.

Huari were large builders: they established administrative centers in several their provinces; they developed a farming system in terraces to increase the productivity of agriculture in the mountainous regions; they also structured their kingdom thanks to many roads that the INCA S will integrate later into their communication system.

It is often considered that the INCA S, which emerged three centuries after the disappearance of Huari, are the heirs to this civilization.

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Pumatampu

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