Incas

Global-5/19/21: The Inca

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Where did the Inca live?

• Yucatan Peninsula

• South America, specifically mostly modern Peru

• Central Mexico

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The Andes...

• are a mountain range where the Inca Empire was established

• are a civilization that was built in central Mexico

• are a series of lakes in Peru

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Who in the Inca Empire had absolute power?

• the priest

• the emperor

• the farmers

• the royal religious advisor

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In the mid 1400s this ruler began to expand the Inca territory

• Pachacuti
• Moctezuma
• Paca
• Pizarro 

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The official language of the Inca

• Quechua

• Latin

• Quipu

• Spanish

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A believe that different aspects of nature have divine powers

• Christianity

• Hinduism

• Animism

• Buddhism

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Here are two facts about the Inca Empire:

• It stretched about 2,500 miles.

• It did not have a written language.

These facts explain why the Incas

• had legends about their origin

• conquered many other groups

• used runners to carry messages

• built their capital in the mountains

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Cutting flat steps or terraces into the side of a mountain to have more land to cultivate is known as

• tribute

• quechua

• terrace farming

• chinampas farming