The Wari Empire, also known as the Huari Empire, was a political formation that emerged around 600 CE in the Ayacucho Basin of Peru and grew to cover much of coastal and highland Peru, lasting for about five hundred years until roughly 1100 CE. It existed during the same era as the Tiwanaku culture centered around Lake Titicaca, and was for a time thought to have derived from it, though the relationship between the two societies remains debated among archaeologists.
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Source Wikipedia: Wari Empire
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- Also in Society and Culture Atlas: Empire, government type there.
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1. Wikipedia: Wari Empire
Administration section
The polity seems to have survived until ca. AD 1100, when it collapsed, likely as a result of both environmental change and internal socio-political stresses.
In Era: The Post-Classical and Medieval Period, lead paragraph
The Wari Empire or Huari Empire was a political formation that emerged in around 600 CE in Peru's Ayacucho Basin and grew to cover much of coastal and highland Peru.
View the Source2. Wari Civilization - World History Encyclopedia
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Based at their capital Huari, the Wari successfully exploited the diverse landscapes they controlled to construct an empire administered by provincial capitals connected by a large road network.
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