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Peru’s Wari culture produced a society of such unprecedented complexity that many today regard it as South America’s first empire. As a predecessor of the Inca Empire, which fell to Spanish forces after 1532, the Wari had no previous examples of expansionist states to draw upon and thus represent a major development in Andean civilization. In conjunction with the Kimbell’s exhibit of Wari art, see works by Andean artisans from Wari’s ancient heartland at the museum’s gift shop.