The map of the Tahuantinsuyo

An Andean bronze bottle made by Chimú artisans from circa 1300 A.D.

The Stele from the Chavin Culture, Ancash, Peru

Moche pottery, Lambayeque, Peru
(Image © PROMPERU, used with permission)

The Tiahuanaco Gate of the Sun, Puno, Peru

An Andean bronze bottle made by Chimú artisans

Polychrome, fish-shaped, nazca vessel, Ica, Peru

The actual territory of Peru was not only the main center of the Tahuantinsuyo, but also the center of the powerful Inca Empire, and after the Spanish conquest, the biggest Spanish Viceroyalty in America. Download high resolution version (1730x3200, 272 KB) The incas were great people there were very cool - matt They often were found underneth their own mothers doing the dirties File links The following pages link to this file: Inca Empire ... Download high resolution version (1730x3200, 272 KB) The incas were great people there were very cool - matt They often were found underneth their own mothers doing the dirties File links The following pages link to this file: Inca Empire ... Image File history File links Andean_Bronze_Age_Bottle. ... Image File history File links Andean_Bronze_Age_Bottle. ... The word Andean refers to the geographic area in and around the Andes Mountains of South America, and to the indigenous peoples that inhabit the area, such as the Inca. ... The Chimú were the residents of Chimor with its capital at the city of Chan Chan in the Moche valley of Peru. ... Events February 22 - Jubilee of Pope Boniface VIII. March 10 - Wardrobe accounts of King Edward I of Englanddo (aka Edward Longshanks) include a reference to a game called creag being played at the town of Newenden in Kent. ... Image File history File links Estela. ... Image File history File links Estela. ... Image File history File links See http://es. ... Image File history File links See http://es. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1401 KB) Photo de la porte du soleil de la civilisation Tiwanaku en Bolivie. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1401 KB) Photo de la porte du soleil de la civilisation Tiwanaku en Bolivie. ... Image File history File links Andean_Bronze_Age_Bottle. ... Image File history File links Andean_Bronze_Age_Bottle. ... Image File history File links Nazca-pottery-(01). ... Image File history File links Nazca-pottery-(01). ... Capital Cusco 1197-1533 Vilcabamba 1533-1572 Language(s) Quechua Government Monarchy Sapa Inca  - 1197–1220 Manco Capac  - 1532-1533 Atahualpa  - 1570-1572 Túpac Amaru History  - Established 1197  - Spanish conquest 1532–1537  - Disestablished 1572 Area  - 1527 2,000,000 km2 772,204 sq mi Population  - 1527 est. ... Capital Cusco 1197-1533 Vilcabamba 1533-1572 Language(s) Quechua Government Monarchy Sapa Inca  - 1197–1220 Manco Capac  - 1532-1533 Atahualpa  - 1570-1572 Túpac Amaru History  - Established 1197  - Spanish conquest 1532–1537  - Disestablished 1572 Area  - 1527 2,000,000 km2 772,204 sq mi Population  - 1527 est. ... In the 16th century, Spaniards led by Pizarro arrived in the Andean region of South America and over the course of only a few decades, succeeded in toppling the Tawantinsuyo, whose empire had spanned most of the Andean region and surrounding lowlands from the south of modern-day Colombia to... Created in 1542, the Viceroyalty of Peru (in Spanish, Virreinato del Perú) contained most of Spanish-ruled South America until the creation of the separate viceroyalties of New Granada (now Colombia, Ecuador, Panamá and Venezuela, the last-named previously in the Viceroyalty of New Spain) in 1717 and Río...

Peru has been inhabited since 20 000 years ago by hunters and collectors, according to some lithic rests found in the caves of Piquimachay (Ayacucho), Chivateros, Lauricocha, Paijan, and Toquepala. The oldest primitive cultures appeared in 6000 BC : in the coast (in the provinces of Chilca and Paracas) and in the highlands (in the province of Callejon de Huaylas). 3000 years later, people became sedentary (Kotosh, Huaca Prieta) so they began to cultivate plants like corn and cotton (Gossypium Barbadense) and to tame some animals too. A few years later, they continue with the spinning and knitting of cotton and wool. They also began to do some basketry and they made the first potteries. Piquimachay is a cave in the Ayacucho Department of Peru. ... Ayacucho is the capital city of Huamanga Province, Ayacucho Region, Peru. ... Chivateros is a cave in the Lima Department of Peru. ... Lauricocha Culture is a sequence of preceramic cultural periods in Perus history, spanning about 5,000 years from circa 8,000 to 2,500 BCE. The total prehistoric sequence in Peru spans 15,000 years, starting at about 13,000 BC when the first gatherer-hunter societies left their... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Toquepala caves are located in the outskirts of the Mining Seat of Toquepala, at a height of the km 103 of the railroad of Ilth to Moquegua in the meridians 7°38 and 71°00 of longitude west and the 17°30 of south latitude. ... (7th millennium BC – 6th millennium BC – 5th millennium BC – other millennia) Events c. ... Corn redirects here. ... Species See text The cotton plant is a tropical and subtropical shrub of the Genus Gossypium (Family Malvaceae). ... A hand-turned spinning wheel in action Cones of yarn for industrial use Spinning is the process of creating yarn (or thread, rope, cable) from various raw fiber materials. ... Knit hat, yarn, and knitting needles Close up of knitting Knitting is one of several ways to turn thread or yarn into cloth (compare to weaving, crochet). ... A basket being woven. ... Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ...

The first and more developed Andean civilizations appeared in the century XIII BC. They were:

• Chavin – The Peruvian Mother Culture, according to Julio C. Tello
• Paracas
• Mochica

An piece of a Paracas Textil, Ica, Peru

• Nazca
• Tiahuanaco
• Wari
• Chimu

This cultures developed excellent techniques of cultivation, gold and silver work, pottery, metallurgy and knitting. They also made social organizations that later (around the century XII AC) became the great Inca civilization. The Chavín were an early civilization that existed in present-day Peru. ... Julio C. Tello was born on April 11, 1880, in Huarochiri, the mountain range of Lima. ... A piece of a Paracas Textil, Ica, Peru The Paracas culture was an important Andean society between approximately 750 BCE and 100 CE that developed in the Paracas Peninsula, located in what today is the Paracas District of the Pisco Province in the Ica Region. ... Moche pottery (Image © PROMPERU, used with permission) The Moche civilization (aka the Mochica culture, Early Chimu, Pre-Chimu, Proto-Chimu, etc. ... Image File history File links MantoParacas. ... Image File history File links MantoParacas. ... Late Intermediate Period Cultures The Nazca culture flourished in the Nazca region between 300 BCE and 800 CE. They created the famous Nazca lines and built an impressive system of underground aqueducts that still function today. ... Area of the Middle Horizon The Gate of the Sun Tiwanaku (Spanish spellings: Tiahuanaco and Tiahuanacu) is an important Pre-Columbian archaeological site in Bolivia. ... Middle Horizon The Huari (or Wari) was a Middle Horizon civilization that flourished in the Andes in the south of modern day Peru, from about 500 to 1200 A.D. The capital city of the same name is located near the modern city of Ayacucho, Peru. ... The Chimú were the residents of Chimor with its capital at the city of Chan Chan in the Moche valley of Peru. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ... Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and of materials engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their intermetallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys. ... Knit hat, yarn, and knitting needles Close up of knitting Knitting is one of several ways to turn thread or yarn into cloth (compare to weaving, crochet). ... Capital Cusco 1197-1533 Vilcabamba 1533-1572 Language(s) Quechua Government Monarchy Sapa Inca  - 1197–1220 Manco Capac  - 1532-1533 Atahualpa  - 1570-1572 Túpac Amaru History  - Established 1197  - Spanish conquest 1532–1537  - Disestablished 1572 Area  - 1527 2,000,000 km2 772,204 sq mi Population  - 1527 est. ...