The Ancient Inca Civilization

Where did the Inca live?

• Yucatan Peninsula

• South America: Peru

• Central Mexico

• North America

Whats the name of the stone city built high up in the Andes including religious temples, royal residences, and houses for workers?

• Andes

• Cusco

• Machu Picchu

• Nahuatl

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

Setting up a strong central government helped Pachacuti

• get a lot of alpaca

• get a lot of llamas

• control the large Inca Empire

• eat a lot of corn

What system of farming did the Inca develop in order to farm in the mountains?

• Chinampas

• Irrigation

• Aqueducts

• Terrace Farming

Even though the Inca had a large and strong army, the Spanish successfully defeated them because they had

• Atahualpa

• horses and superior metal weapons

• terraced farming

• Francisco Pizarro

Their bridges built of wood, stone, and thick rope, as well as their extensive network and roads, plus their entire cities built out of stone show us that the Inca were

• lazy

• gifted engineers and builders

• using a lot of help from the Maya

• skilled readers and writers

Who in the Inca Empire had absolute power?

• the priest

• the emperor

• the farmers

• the royal religious advisor

Why is so little known about the early history of the Incas?

• Aztecs took their books
• There was a bad fire
• They didn't have a system of writing
• Pizarro and the Spanish took and destroyed everything

The Inca has ______ for meat and wool and for transporting goods and people across the mountains.

• horses

• camel

• alpaca and llamas

• sheep