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    the oldest known civilization in the Americas, dating back to 3500 BCE. Andean civilizations are one of at least five civilizations in the world deemed...
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    that the peoples of Andean civilizations worshipped an overarching deity. The figure may have been carved by a later civilization onto an ancient gourd...
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    Inca Empire (redirect from Andean Peoples)
    chapter of thousands of years of Andean civilizations. The Andean civilization is one of at least five civilizations in the world deemed by scholars to...
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    of civilization is a location and a culture where civilization was developed independent of other civilizations in other locations. A civilization is...
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    Caral (category Andean civilizations)
    2000 BC. It appears to be the model for the urban design adopted by Andean civilizations that rose and fell over the span of four millennia. Scholars believe...
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    The Chavín culture was a pre-Columbian civilization, developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru around 900 BCE, ending around 250 BCE. It extended...
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    sometimes it also contrasts with the cultures found within civilizations themselves. Civilizations are organized densely-populated settlements divided into...
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    This is a list of pre-Columbian cultures. Many pre-Columbian civilizations established permanent or urban settlements, agriculture, and complex societal...
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    In mythology of Andean civilizations of South America, the amaru or katari (aymara) is a mythical serpent or dragon. In Inca mythology, Amaru is a huge...
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  • Huaricanga (category Andean civilizations)
    rapid cultural development in the Andean region of Peru, which is different from the reliance of most original civilizations on cultivation of agriculture...
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    Other civilizations, contemporaneous with the colonial period, were documented in European accounts of the time. For instance, the Maya civilization maintained...
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  • needed]. Cultures considered Andean include: Atacama people Aymara people Muisca people or Chibcha Andean civilizations Quechua people Uru people Diaguita...
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    the cessation of ceremonial use of the site is associated with the pan-Andean drought. Later (post-Cahuachi) Nazca society was structured in a similar...
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    or the San Jose dam, which continue to provide water, coming from the Andean region and groundwater, guaranteeing several harvests per year. Access to...
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    continues to be home to indigenous peoples, some of whom built high civilizations prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late 1400s and early 1500s...
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    the Maya civilization, stingless bees were domesticated to produce balché. Cochineal were harvested by Mesoamerican and Andean civilizations for coloring...
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  • Government of the Inca Empire (category Andean civilizations)
    It drew upon the administrative forms and practices of previous Andean civilizations such as the Wari Empire and Tiwanaku, and had in common certain practices...
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    civilizations shared the same iconography, referred to as the "Southern Andean Iconographic Series". The relationship between the two civilizations is...
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    H. Steward (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians Vol. 2 The Andean Civilizations (PDF). Washington: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 183–330. Bauer, Brian...
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  • which the Maya used in various aspects of their life. Alpacas – The Andean civilizations were among the first to domesticate alpacas. Ammassalik wooden maps...
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    Olmecs (redirect from Olmec civilization)
    Veracruz. They were the first Mesoamerican civilization and laid many of the foundations for the civilizations that followed. Among other "firsts", the...
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    Aztecs (redirect from Aztec civilizations)
    As the former nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples mixed with the complex civilizations of Mesoamerica, adopting religious and cultural practices, the foundation...
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    The Chakana (Andean cross, "stepped cross" or "step motif" or "stepped motif") is a stepped cross motif used by the Inca and pre-incan Andean societies....
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    societies developed primarily in two regions: Mesoamerica and the Andean civilizations. Mesoamerican cultures include Zapotec, Toltec, Olmec, Maya, Aztec...
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    Pre-Columbian Peru (category Andean civilizations)
    the Andean preceramic period. These early societies focused on the gathering of marine resources and did not rely on maize, as later civilizations did...
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    lists just under 50 museums in Europe alone. Civilizations portal Entheogenics and the Maya Huastec civilization Index of Mexico-related articles Maya codices...
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    Wari Empire (category Andean civilizations)
    Empire's culture. The Wari Empire was a second-generation state of the Andean region; both it and Tiwanaku had been preceded by the first-generation Moche...
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    Cupisnique (category Andean civilizations)
    The Cupisnique culture was a pre-Columbian indigenous culture that flourished from c. 1500 to 500 BC along what now is Peru's northern Pacific coast. The...
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    Tiwanaku Empire (category Andean civilizations)
    southern Lake Titicaca Basin. Tiwanaku was one of the most significant Andean civilizations. Its influence extended into present-day Peru and Chile and lasted...
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    Machu Picchu (category 15th-century establishments in the Inca civilization)
    Longhena, Maria; Alva, Walter (2007). The Incas and Other Ancient Andean Civilizations. Barnes & Noble Books. ISBN 978-1-4351-0003-9. Wright, Kenneth R...
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