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Nazca

100 BC – 800
Native nationSouth America

The south-coast people who etched the vast Nazca Lines into the desert and farmed it with underground aqueducts.

Declined by ~800 AD as the desert dried and Wari influence spread; absorbed into the wider Andean world.

Borders in 100 BC · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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