Land of Vital Blood: Pre-Columbian America
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A Brief History of the Andes
The andes, like the central valley ofmex o, have a lot of more kind of moderate, mild climate areas at high elevations. So this actually made it surprisingly an amenable place for large food surpluses and towns and cities - even though it's such a extremely rugged area. Certain early civilizations arose in the sort of central belt of the andes, around what's now ecuador, peru and bolivia,. Beginning with the chavin and the naska as early as 900 b c. Later a various imara kingdoms up through the first millennium a d. And after about one thousand a d, they declined and were superseded by the incas.
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