Tiwanaku and Wari

Two powers dominated the Andes before the Inca: Tiwanaku near Lake Titicaca, with its great gateways and raised fields, and Wari to the north, with its roads and planned centres.

Date: About AD 500 to 1000VII · After the empiresVIII · Medieval networks and empires
Place: Tiwanaku, Bolivia · Huari, Peru · Pikillacta, PeruThe Americas
Laid out as: A civilisationA society seen from the inside: its rulers, places, work, beliefs and daily life, laid out like the rooms of a house.
Lessons: 5 planned, none written yet
Image: The Met Open Access, CC0
Themes: Politics, government and law
Transport, towns and building works
Farming, food and drink
Art, architecture and design

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

ITiwanaku by the lake
IIThe Gateway of the Sun
IIIRaised fields
IVWari and its roads
VTwo powers, or rivals?

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

Alan Kolata
Luis Lumbreras

Objects

The Gateway of the Sun
Wari tunics

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestry Our species and the Old Stone Age Farming and the New Stone Age First cities and the Bronze Age The Iron Age and growing states The classical world After the empires Medieval networks and empires Oceans crossed Revolutions and the first factories Industry, empire and world war The world since 1945

AD 500 to 1000. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?