Inca Empire

Where did the Inca live?

• Yucatan Peninsula

• South America, specifically mostly modern Peru

• Central Mexico

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

The capital of the Inca Empire was

• Tenochtitlan

• Texcoco

• Copan

• Cuzco

The Empire that developed in the Andes Mountains of South America lasting from the 1400s to the 1530s was the

• Aztec

• Inca

• Maya

• Conquistadors

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

• get a lot of alpaca

• get a lot of llamas

• control the large Inca Empire

• eat a lot of corn

Who in the Inca Empire had absolute power?

• the priest

• the emperor

• the farmers

• the royal religious advisor

Who was the Inca Emperor while the Spanish invaded? He was eventually captured and executed.

• Pachacuti

• Machu Picchu

• Pizarro

• Atahualpa

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

• horses

• llamas

• alpaca and llamas

• sheep

What did the Incas use to carry their goods on the roads?

• horses
• carts
• sleds
• llamas