Rise of Tiwanaku
A city by Lake Titicaca nearly four kilometres up
By the mid-first millennium, Tiwanaku, at about 3,800 metres, had become the centre of a state whose influence reached from Peru to northern Chile. Its builders raised the Akapana stepped pyramid and the famous Gate of the Sun, carved from a single block of stone. Raised-field farming yielded harvests even at altitude. Around 1000 the city declined, by various estimates because of a long drought.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 476 Fall of the Western Roman Empire — 24 years earlier
- c. 496 Baptism of Clovis — 4 years earlier
Middle East
- c. 500 Completion of the Babylonian Talmud — same year
Alive at the time
- Justinian I (aged 18)
- Clovis I (aged 34)
- Aryabhata (aged 24)
- Theodora (aged 0)