Overview
After Tiwanaku and Wari collapsed, the Andes fragmented into many competing polities. The Chimú built Chan Chan, the largest adobe city in the Americas, while other kingdoms and confederations ruled stretches of the coast and highlands.
Key developments
The Chimú (Chimor) controlled a long stretch of the Peruvian coast through irrigation, roads, and mass production of fine metalwork and pottery. In the highlands the Aymara kingdoms and others held the Titicaca basin and mountain valleys.
End and transition
In the 15th century the expanding Inca conquered the Chimú and the other kingdoms one by one. Their peoples and skills were absorbed into the new Inca empire.