grade 8 m.wiener near the moche valley, peru capital of the kingdom of chimor (chimu empire) ...
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CHAN CHAN
Grade 8M.Wiener
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WHAT IS IT?
Near the Moche Valley, Peru Capital of the Kingdom of Chimor
(Chimu Empire) America’s largest prehispanic mud-
brick settlement City covers 7.7 sq miles Origin: Beginning of the first
millennium AD when first large enclosure was built
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CHIMU Agriculture was a major concern of the
Chimu Built miles of irrigation canals,
including inter-valley canals to expand area of cultivation
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ARCHITECTURE Very tall walls 26ft high, enclose each
of the 11 citadels Huaca Obispo- largest Chan Chan
stepped pyramid U-shaped audiencias Storerooms Wells Winding passageways
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U-SHAPED “AUDIENCIAS” Vary in sizes Interpreted as administrative offices Decorated elaborately
Clay friezes that represent shellfish Stylized waves Marine birds Fish
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STOREROOMS
Capacity of 2,000 sq meters (Found empty)
Housed textiles and other small luxury goods Determined from imprints found
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WALK-IN WELLS
Today are completely dried out Mechanized pumps Sent water to many parts of the
city Including “sunken gardens” where the produced consumed by the inhabitants of Chan Chan was grown
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KINGS “one king- one palace” theory
from the excavation of several highly disturbed platforms found within citadel enclosures
Looting “mining”
Women used as human sacrifices Bones found at the central grave
near royal tomb
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COMMONERS Lived outside of the compounds Forbidden to enter compounds Artisans, fishermen, farmers, laborers
Resided in what archaeologists call “intermediate architecture” –structures smaller than monumental compounds
Intermediate architecture housed an estimated 12,000 artisans, but otherwise the number is unknown
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CHAN CHAN Population is unknown Tax records
Show looting of precious metals Production
Ceramics, textiles, woodworking, maize-beer
Inca Broke the back bone of the Chimu
economy
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