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The significance of Chavín is that for the first time many of the local or regional cultures of the area were unified by a common ideology or religion. The extent of political unification remains uncertain.
- What was a major achievement of the Chavín?
- How did the Chavín influence other cultures?
- What did the Chavin culture do?
- What makes the Chavins unique in ancient history?
- Where did the Chavin culture arise?
- What did the Chavin eat?
- How are the Chavin and Inca civilizations similar?
- What religion were the Chavin?
- What was interesting about a Moche burial?
- Who created the Chavin de Huantar?
- Who inhabited early South America?
- What is one lasting legacy of the Inca?
- Why did the Moche disappear?
- What is Moche pottery?
- What did Moche wear?
What was a major achievement of the Chavín?
The Chavín culture adapted to the highland environments of Peru. The chief example of their most innovative achievements is the Chavín de Huántar temple, which was equipped with a highly developed drainage system. The Chavín people domesticated camelids, such as llamas.
How did the Chavín influence other cultures?
The Chavin religious centre Chavin de Huantar became an important Andean pilgrimage site, and Chavin art was equally influential both with contemporary and later cultures from the Paracas to the Incas, helping to spread Chavin imagery and ideas and establish the first universal Andean belief system.
What did the Chavin culture do?
The Chavín culture also demonstrated advanced skills and knowledge in metallurgy, soldering, and temperature control. They used early techniques to develop refined gold work. The melting of metal had been discovered at this point and was used as a solder. The people domesticated camelids such as llamas.
What makes the Chavins unique in ancient history?
The unique geography of the Chavín site—near two rivers and also near high mountain valleys—allowed its residents to grow both maize, which thrived in the lowlands of the river valley, and potatoes, which grew best in the higher altitudes of the Andes Mountains.
Where did the Chavin culture arise?
Chavín, earliest highly developed culture in pre-Columbian Peru, which flourished between about 900 and 200 bc. During this time Chavín artistic influence spread throughout the northern and central parts of what is now Peru.
What did the Chavin eat?
What did Chavin people eat? Chavin people also farmed corn, but they really ate mostly potatoes and quinoa, which grow better high in the Andes mountains. Hunters shot deer with spears and with bows and arrows. Herders kept guinea pigs for their meat.
How are the Chavin and Inca civilizations similar?
Both occupied areas in the mountain ranges of the Andes. Both developed trade relations with the Maya and Aztec. Both practiced the ritual of human sacrifice.
What religion were the Chavin?
Clear examples are the area of the Tello Pyramid, the Circular Plaza, the Rectangular Plaza, the North and South Platforms, the New Temple and the Old Temple. Various historians say that religion in the Chavín culture was polytheistic, they worshiped large animals such as snakes with hair and long fangs.
What was interesting about a Moche burial?
Moche Burials
These elaborate burials include a considerable quantity of grave goods and are often highly stylized. Often copper artifacts are found in the mouth, hands and under the feet of the interred individual. Generally, the corpse was prepared and placed in a coffin made of canes.
Who created the Chavin de Huantar?
Chavín de Huántar is an archaeological site containing ruins and artifacts originally constructed in the Peruvian Andes by the pre-Incan Chavín people around 900 B.C.E. The Chavín civilization is thought to be the earliest and most developed in Peru's history, pre-dating the Inca by almost 2000 years.
Who inhabited early South America?
Four main components have contributed to the present-day population of South America—American Indians (Amerindians), who were the pre-Columbian inhabitants; Iberians (Spanish and Portuguese who conquered and dominated the continent until the beginning of the 19th century); Africans, imported as slaves by the colonizers ...
What is one lasting legacy of the Inca?
An enduring legacy
Today, many of the traditions the Inca carried out live on in the Andes. Textile making is still popular, the foods they ate are consumed around the world and archaeological sites like Machu Picchu are popular tourist attractions. Even their ancient language, Quechua, is still widely spoken.
Why did the Moche disappear?
The reasons for the demise of the Moche are unknown, but the civilization may have succumbed to earthquakes, prolonged drought, catastrophic flooding arising from the El Niño climatic anomaly, the encroachment of sand dunes on populated areas, or less-tangible social and cultural factors.
What is Moche pottery?
The Moche Ceramics
Ceramics is the most significant art form of the Moche culture, and its world of motifs is larger than that of any other ancient Peruvian culture. The Moche ceramists created both sculptural and plain paint-ornamented vessels. The most popular vessel form was the traditional stirrup spout vessel.
What did Moche wear?
Notice the elaborate costume: a large unwieldy headdress with a crescent shaped ornament and two war club heads, large ear spools, a bracelet and the backflap on the backside. Both the clothes and ornaments have a spotted pattern which may refer to a spotted animal, like a jaguar.
