Grade 8 M.Wiener

 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

 Agriculture was a major concern of the Chimu  Built miles of irrigation canals, including inter- valley canals to expand area of cultivation

 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

 Vary in sizes  Interpreted as administrative offices  Decorated elaborately  Clay friezes that represent shellfish  Stylized waves  Marine birds  Fish

 Capacity of 2,000 sq meters  (Found empty)  Housed textiles and other small luxury goods  Determined from imprints found

 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

 “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

 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

 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