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Post by PaulaJedi on Apr 2, 2022 11:27:54 GMT -5
The Moche, or Mochica, lived from the 1st century to the 8th on the northern part of Peru along a river. Moche structures that were found were the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the moon. The Temple of the Sun was a pyramid and the Temple of the moon was a platform. They have created beautiful architecture and art as shown by clicking here. Nobody really knows where the civilization went and why it isn't thriving today. Some believed natural disasters wiped them out, with El Nino flooding being one possibility. They seemed to have vanished around 700 AD. You can read the Wikipedia entry here. What do you think happened to them? |
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Post by Thomas Raider on Apr 6, 2022 9:11:14 GMT -5
There are two major questions that need to be asked with regards to any civilization.
The first question, is what are their origins?
And then, as you asked, ...
where did the people of that particular civilization go?
Tracking the migration paths of people is difficult. There are theories such as walking across a land bridge, from Asia to the North American Continent. Then, in time, migrating East, and South.
However, when you take a close look at the origins of civilizations in the Americas, the people themselves tell different stories with regards to their origins.
Information from Wikipedia states that the Moche civilization was prevalent from the 1st Century AD to the 8th Century AD.
Their lands extended from the Lambayeque River, then south some 215 miles to the Nepena River Valley.
So...before the 1st Century AD, where were they?
The reason why 'I" ask these questions, is to find something common that the people carried with them where ever they travelled.
It could be religious, style of statues, construction of buildings, boats ( if they had any ), and their form of writing.
Reading the information about the Moche civilization in Wikipedia, just seems to me to be politically biased, and the contributors just had to get in the words " climate change ".
IF the climate was such that it caused the Moche civilization to collapse, did the same climate change allow the Inca to rise and flourish in the 14th - 15th centuries AD ?
Or perhaps there was a catastrophe that caused the Moche people to either disperse, or...
be absorbed into another civilization, or...
have mass death event resulting with very small number of Moche people left, unable to sustain a thriving civilization?
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Post by PaulaJedi on Apr 8, 2022 5:44:17 GMT -5
"Reading the information about the Moche civilization in Wikipedia, just seems to me to be politically biased, and the contributors just had to get in the words " climate change "
I didn't see that part. Figures! Yes, I do urge people to do more research from other sources. If climate change caused the Moche to collapse, then ALL civilizations would have collapsed at once. If they simply "dispersed", we would have found evidence of them elsewhere. As for mass death, where are the bones?
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