Inca Empire Reading

Where did the Inca live?

• Yucatan Peninsula

• South America, specifically mostly modern Peru

• Central Mexico

• Caribbean Sea

The capital of the Inca Empire was at

• Tenochtitlan

• Texcoco

• Copan

• Cusco

Quechua was the

• language spoken by the Inca

• corn recipe used by the Inca

• city built by the Inca high in the Andes

• ruler of the Inca

What color represents where the Inca civilization was?

• blue

• red

• gray

• green

Which mountain range can be found in South America?

• Andes

• Rockies

• Himalayas

• Alps

The Incas farmed by

• creating on chinampas

• tilling the flat lands

• cutting terraces into the hillsides and mountains

• building greenhouses

The accompanying image represented a means of communication for the Inca and was called

• a mita

• an hierarchy

• an ayllu

• a quipu

The desert which lies between the Andes Mountain range and the Pacific Ocean is the

• Kalahari

• Atacama

• Saharan

• Gobi

The Inca knew when to plant crops because they

• studied the movement of the sun and moon.

• had a very strong government.

• used the Aztec calendar.

• used the quipu.

The emperor of the Inca was known as the

• Inti

• Ayllu

• Mita

• Sapa Inca