{"id":1269,"date":"2018-08-17T18:27:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T23:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maycas.us\/wordpress\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2019-08-28T18:56:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T23:56:53","slug":"17-tiwanaku-the-lunar-surface-and-zebras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maycas.us\/wordpress\/?p=1269","title":{"rendered":"17: Tiwanaku, The Lunar Surface, and Zebras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What do the three things in the title have in common?\u00a0 Keep reading and find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We left La Paz on a day trip to visit the Tiwanaku ruins. The Tiwanaku were a pre-Inca civilization that lived in the area between 100-1000 AD. Their territory spanned parts of Bolivia, Peru, and northern Chile. We heard two different theories as to why they abandoned this location, and ultimately perished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first theory centers around the fact the Tiwanaku did not have a centralized form of government. When one of their most revered leaders died, there was great infighting between the clans within the Tiwanaku as to who would take his place.\u00a0 This fighting lead to rifts that never healed and the individual groups where not able to survive on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second theory centers around a great drought that hit this area about the time the Tiwanaku disappeared.\u00a0 The thought is they did not react quickly enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During our travels over the next few weeks we learned the Incans did not necessarily create many of the technologies and methodologies they are identified with, but rather picked them up other ancient civilizations such as the Tiwanaku.\u00a0 In some cases they made small improvements, in others they actually made inferior products.\u00a0 The primary reason the Inca get credit for being such an advanced society is they were the ones conquered by the Spanish, who were the first to formally document what they found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This site is one of the more complete ruins from the Tiwanaku era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n