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Conflict Americas

Wari Imperial Expansion

600 CE – 1000 CE · 400 years

The Wari state expanded from Ayacucho across the central Andes, building administrative centers such as Pikillaqta and Viracochapampa and projecting military power over coastal and highland Peru during the Middle Horizon.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Wari Empire
  • Nazca polities
  • Moche successor states
  • Local highland groups

Key moments

Defining events in the Wari Imperial Expansion.

  1. c. 650 CE Conquest of the Nazca region
  2. c. 650 CE Establishment of Pikillaqta garrison
  3. c. 800 CE Northern campaigns and Viracochapampa construction

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

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Attested 500 CE – 700 CE

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700 CE – 1300 CE

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 600 CE and 1000 CE.

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And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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