Northern coastal Peru · Post-Classical Era
Chimú Kingdom
The adobe-walled empire the Inca conquered last
900 CE – 1470 CE · 570 years
A coastal Andean kingdom whose adobe capital, Chan Chan, was the largest city of its kind before falling to the Inca.
Where it sits on the calendar
Government
Centralized empire
Writing system
No writing system known
Estimated peak population
500,000
How it ended
Invasion or conquest
Traits
Monumental architecture Bronze metallurgy Irrigation agriculture Standing army Long-distance trade Urban planning Seafaring Iron metallurgy Codified law Astronomical record-keeping
How Chimú Kingdom ended
Conquered by the expanding Inca Empire under Topa Inca Yupanqui.
See other civilizations that fell the same way →Notable for
- Chan Chan, the largest adobe city in the pre-Columbian Americas
- Extensive coastal irrigation canal networks
- Skilled goldsmithing and metalwork
Who else was alive at the same time
7 other civilizations in this dataset overlap with Chimú Kingdom's 570-year span.
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