Wari Empire

State · 600–1000 CE · at its largest around 600 CE

Andean state centred on the city of Huari near Ayacucho that spread across the Peruvian highlands with administrative centres and roads, anticipating the Inca.

On its lands while it lasted

• Nazca culture (c. 100 BCE – c. 800 CE): Culture of the arid south coast of Peru, known for polychrome pottery, underground aqueducts (puquios) and the Nazca Lines.
• Wari Empire (c. 600–1000 CE): Middle Horizon state of the central Andes, ruled from its capital near modern Ayacucho, that built administrative centres and roads later used by the Inca.

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