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The Chimú were the residents of Chimor with its capital at the city of Chan Chan in the Moche valley of Peru.
Chimor was conquered 50 years before the arrival of the Spanish, so there were plenty of survivors from pre-Inca times to dictate the particulars of the daily life of the Chimú before their conquest by Inca TupacIncaYupanqui.
Chimor grew out of the remnants of the Moche culture; initially, Chimú pottery had some resemblance to Moche pottery.
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Chimor was the largest kingdom in the Late Intermediate period, encompassing 1000 km of coastline and including up to 2/3 of the people of the Andes.
According to legend the capital Chan Chan was founded by Taycanamo who arrived in the area by sea.
Chimor was the last kingdom that had any chance of stopping the Inca.
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It was traditional for the Inca's son to lead the army; Pachacuti's son Túpac Inca began conquests to the north in 1463, and continued them as Inca after Pachucuti's death in 1471.
His most important conquest was the Kingdom of Chimor, the Inca's only serious rival for the coast of Peru.
Chimor (also Kingdom of Chimor) was the political grouping of the Chimú; culture that ruled the northern coast of Peru, beginning around 850 CE and ending around 1470 CE.
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According to legends preserved by Spanish chronicles, the Chimor Kingdom was founded by a man named Taycanamo, who came to the site of Chan Chan on a log raft, dressed in cotton breechcloth and carrying magic yellow powders.
He conquered the local inhabitants, learned their language and began the 600-year reign of the Chimor Kingdom.
The redistribution of these goods served to extend the power of the Chimor ruler and his empire.
In consequence, the Huari and Tiwanaku, who dwelled inland in the Andes became the predominant cultures of the region encompassing much modern-day Peru and Bolivia.
Chimor, some of Chachapoyas, and countless city-states were eventually conquered by the Inca, who dominated the country until the Spanish conquest.
This allowed the Inca to indoctrinate the former ruler's children into the Inca nobility, and, with luck, marry their daughters into families at various corners of the empire.
Especially famous is the Gate of the Sun, which depicts a large image of the Staff God flanked by other religious symbols which may have functioned as a calendar.
Following the decline of the Wari Empire in the late first millennium, the Chimú people, centered out of their capital city of Chimor began to build their empire on the north and central coasts of Peru.
The Chimú were preceded by a simple ceramic style known as Sicán (700-900 CE) which became increasingly decorative until it became recognizable as Chimú in the early second millennium.
McEwan (Moseley and Cordy-Collins 1990) thinks the shift from pyramid -dominated ceremonial centers of the Moche era to the enclosed rectilinear compounds of Chimor was a deliberate imitation of Wari architecture.
It is also thought that the king lists should be compressed and the ancient Peruvian sense of time not conceived of not as western and linear but linked with the cosmology and not concerned with getting things in proper chronological order.
At any rate, the north coastal/lowland cultural evolution here culminated in the Chimor empire, the last and greatest polity centered in that environment, while the Inca of the southern highlands dominated from a foundation in the highlands and mountains.
One of mankind's fascinating stories of the past is the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Chimor, AD 950-1440.
The Chimú; people never developed a formal handwriting system, but insights into the story of their society are told in their architecture and decorative arts.
The Chimor Empire fell under Inca domination about AD 1440, about the time Columbus discovered America.
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One provincial region for which some archaeological data are now available is the North Coast of Peru, once the seat of the Incas' most powerful rival, the Kingdom of Chimor.
More specifically, it is argued that one of Chiquitoy Viejo's principal functions was the inspection of shipments of high-status goods being sent from the Chimu heartland to the Inca capital at Cuzco.
Furthermore, the existence of Chuquitoy Viejo shows that the prevailing interpretation of the Inca government of the North Coast, which postulates minimal interference with native Chimu administrative patterns, must be modified.
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