Inca Day 2

Inca Day 2

Multiple Choice

The Inca empire was located in ________.

• Mexico

• Peru

• Yucatan Peninsula

• United States

Multiple Choice

The Inca empire was located in and along the _____ mountains.

• Rocky

• Appalachian

• Peru

• Andes

Multiple Choice

The Inca lived in the Amazon Rainforest.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

There were many important resources in the Amazon Rainforest.

• True

• False

Open Ended

Name one resource from the Amazon Rainforest.

​Inca Empire

​The empire covered an area so large that most of modern-day Peru and parts of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina would lie inside its borders.

​Diversity

​This is a region of great geographical diversity.

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​geographical diversity (phrase), the presence of many different kinds of landforms, waterways, or other geographic features in a region​

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Open Ended

Why was the Inca Empire geographically diverse?

The Inca Empire was geographically diverse because ______.

​Inca Empire

​The Incas were a great civilization between 1400 and 1533. They built the largest empire of the native South American people

​Incas

​Tribes of people already lived in South America for many thousands of years.

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The Incas started as a small tribe in Cuzco, Peru.

​Inca Life

​The Inca people were organized into clans, or groups. Every Inca family was part of a clan, and each clan farmed a piece of land.

​Social Pyramid

​Life was very different depending on who you were in the Inca Empire.

Multiple Choice

Most Inca were:

• Farmers

• Scribes

• Sapa Inca

• Nobels

​Inca Homes

​Families lived in windowless, one-room stone huts with thatched roofs.

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Parents and children slept together on animal skins spread on the bare

floor.

​Farmers

​Most Inca were farmers. They grew corn, squash, tomatoes, peanuts, cotton, and more than a hundred varieties of potatoes.

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The potato was the main crop for the Inca. It grew well even at high altitudes on the slopes of the Andes Mountains.

Multiple Choice

The Inca's main crop was:

• Potatoes

• Corn

• Wheat

• Apples

​Royals

​A smaller number of people were royals. Royals lived a luxurious lifestyle and may or may not work.

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They wore special hairstyles and jewelry to make themselves stand apart from the peasants.

Open Ended

What is one way life was different for commoners and for royals.

One way life was different for commoners and for royals is..

​Sapa Inca

​The most important of all was the Sapa Inca, or emperor.

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All the people in the empire had to listen to him.

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Sapa Inca means Great Inca

​The Sapa Inca was the emperor of the Incas. He owned everything and made laws.

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​He wore a headdress of gold and feathers

​The Sapa Inca

Open Ended

Describe the Inca social pyramid.

The Inca social pyramid had the most people....

On the top was the....

​Sapa Inca

​A Sapa Inca had many wives and many children.

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Everything about the Sapa Inca was sacred and had to be guarded and handled with care

​Sapa Inca

​Only the Sapa Inca could wear a special hat made of gold and feathers.

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He wore heavy gold jewelry and extremely heavy gold earplugs. His clothes were embroidered and covered with jewels. His slippers were made of fur or the finest cloth.

​Sapa Inca

​The Sapa Inca only wore an outfit once. Once his clothes were removed, they were burned. The Sapa Inca kept many weavers busy making him a new outfit every day.

Open Ended

What happened to the Sapa Inca's clothing after he wore it?

​Sapa Inca

​Some Sapa Incas had as many as 100 children. Before a Sapa Inca died, he chose the next Sapa Inca from his sons.

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The oldest son did not automatically get chosen. Each son had to prove themselves most worthy. Only the Sapa Inca could decide who was the most worthy.

Multiple Choice

The job of the Sapa Inca was:

• inherited

• voted on