![]() Wari and Inka architecture are dramatically different: the Wari attempted to conquer nature, while the Inka demonstrated that nature supports them. However, there appears to be a major difference in the way the Wari and the Inka built their empires in the most literal sense. In fact, the fundamental system of Inka control, a labor taxation system recorded on knotted strings called khipu, appears to be a revival of a Wari system, a technique found nowhere else in the Andes. Indeed, much of Inka imperial construction is both conceptually and physically built upon Wari foundations. While today the Inka’s fame eclipses that of the Wari, the latter were perhaps formers’ direct ancestors, laying their imperial foundations eight hundred years before the Inka arrived in Cusco. ![]() Photo courtesy of author.īefore the Inka were a glimmer in the cosmos, the Wari Empire dominated the Central Andes, spreading out from their capital in the Ayacucho Valley, north through the majority of the modern-day country of Peru, and south toward the contemporary Bolivian border. ![]() News BOXED IN: The Connection Between Wari Mortuary Complexes and Inka Textilesīy Katie Elizabeth Ligmond Figure 1.
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