Bolivia
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The region that is now known as Bolivia has been constantly occupied for over 2,000 years, when the Aymara arrived in the region. Present-day Aymara associate themselves with an advanced civilizationsituated at Tiwanaku, in Western Bolivia. The capital city of Tiwanaku dates as early as 1500 BC as a small agriculturally based village.[12]
The community grew to urban proportions between AD 600and AD 800, becoming an important regional power in the southern Andes. According to early estimates, at its maximum extent, the city covered approximately 6.5 square kilometres, and had between15,000 – 30,000 inhabitants.[13] However, satellite imaging was used recently to map the extent of fossilized suka kollus across the three primary valleys of Tiwanaku, arriving at population-carryingcapacity estimates of anywhere between 285,000 and 1,482,000 people.[14]
Around AD 400, Tiwanaku went from being a locally dominant force to a predatory state. Tiwanaku expanded its reaches into theYungas and brought its culture and way of life to many other cultures in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. However, Tiwanaku was not a violent culture in many aspects. In order to expand its reach Tiwanakubecame very political creating colonies, trade agreements (which made the other cultures rather dependant), and state cults.[15]
The empire continued to grow with no end in sight. William H. Isbellstates that "Tiahuanaco underwent a dramatic transformation between AD 600 and 700 that established new monumental standards for civic architecture and greatly increased the resident population."[16]Tiwanaku continued to absorb cultures rather than eradicate them. Archaeologists have seen a dramatic adoption of Tiwanaku ceramics in the cultures who became part of the Tiwanaku empire. Tiwanaku gainedits power through the trade it implemented between all of the cities within its empire.[15]
The elites gained their status by the surplus of food they gained from all of the regions and then by...
The community grew to urban proportions between AD 600and AD 800, becoming an important regional power in the southern Andes. According to early estimates, at its maximum extent, the city covered approximately 6.5 square kilometres, and had between15,000 – 30,000 inhabitants.[13] However, satellite imaging was used recently to map the extent of fossilized suka kollus across the three primary valleys of Tiwanaku, arriving at population-carryingcapacity estimates of anywhere between 285,000 and 1,482,000 people.[14]
Around AD 400, Tiwanaku went from being a locally dominant force to a predatory state. Tiwanaku expanded its reaches into theYungas and brought its culture and way of life to many other cultures in Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. However, Tiwanaku was not a violent culture in many aspects. In order to expand its reach Tiwanakubecame very political creating colonies, trade agreements (which made the other cultures rather dependant), and state cults.[15]
The empire continued to grow with no end in sight. William H. Isbellstates that "Tiahuanaco underwent a dramatic transformation between AD 600 and 700 that established new monumental standards for civic architecture and greatly increased the resident population."[16]Tiwanaku continued to absorb cultures rather than eradicate them. Archaeologists have seen a dramatic adoption of Tiwanaku ceramics in the cultures who became part of the Tiwanaku empire. Tiwanaku gainedits power through the trade it implemented between all of the cities within its empire.[15]
The elites gained their status by the surplus of food they gained from all of the regions and then by...
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