12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Wari Empire
In every new town and city that the wari folded into their empire, they built an administrative building built to a standard plan. The real power of the wari lasted for more than 400 years, but around the year one thousand, it rapidly came apart. By the year 11 hundred, all of the major wari centres were abandoned and never reoccupied. What followed was centuries of fragmentation and warfare in the mountains as rival ates competed to fill the power vacuum left behind by the wari. From these wars, the inca would rise. They would model themselves, both culturally and politically, on the wari - even dressing their nobles in woven tunics descended from wari traditional dress
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