tiahuanaco in A Sentence

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    Like the Aztecs, Tiahuanaco's power emanated from an enormous city-state;

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    When the climate changed around 950 AD and rainfall in the region dramatically decreased, the resultant drought drastically limited Tiahuanaco's ability to feed its people.

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    According to myth, Viracocha(also called Kon-Tiki Viracocha) suddenly abandoned Tiahuanaco and travelled westward, crossing the Pacific Ocean, founding other cultures and teaching them the fundamentals of civilization.

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    Heyerdahl believed that Kon-Tiki did not voluntarily leave Tiahuanaco, but rather escaped and traveled across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia after losing a war with indigenous Andeans.

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    In the highlands, both the Tiahuanaco culture, near Lake Titicaca in both Peru and Bolivia, and the Wari culture, near the present-day city of Ayacucho, developed large urban settlements and wide-ranging state systems between 500 and 1000 AD.

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