Wari Empire

Infobox Former Country
native_name = aut|Tiwanaku-Huari
conventional_long_name = Tiwanaku-Huari Empire
(aka: Huari Empire, Huari phenomenon)
common_name = Tiwanaku-Huari Empire
Huari Empire
Huari phenomenon
continent = South America
region = Andes
country = Peru, Bolivia
era = Pre-Columbian
government_type =
year_start = 500
year_end = 1100
event_pre =
event_start =
event_end =
p1 = Huari Culture
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p2 = Tiwanaku Culture
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image_map_caption = Wari and Tiwanaku zones of influence
image_map_size = 120px
capital = Huari
common_languages = Aymara?, others.
religion = The Wari Empire was a political formation that emerged around AD500 in the central and northern highlands of Peru. It is debated if the phenomenon can be termed an "empire" and some archaeologists such as Ruth Shady have suggested that Wari was not an empire, but rather a loose economic network of Wari centres. However, many other scholars, including William Isbell, Katherine Schreiber and Luis Lumbreras, have strongly argued for the centralised nature of the Huari polity. While Huari probably had significant organizational and administrative power, it remains unclear what the origins of its political and artistic forms were – emerging evidence suggests that rather than being the result of Tiwanaku traits diffusing north, the Wari and Tiwanaku ideological formations may be traceable to previous developments at Pukara, an Early Intermediate Period culture to the north of Lake Titicaca. The polity seems to have survived until ca. AD1100, when it collapsed probably as a result of both environmental change and internal socio-political stresses.

Empire or not?

Administration

Urbanism

ee also

*Huari culture
*Tiwanaku culture