Incan Civilization

The capital city of the Incan Empire

• Cuzco

• achiote

• Huaca

The mountain range that runs along the western edge of South America; home of the Incas.

• Aqueducts

• Andes Mountains

• Francisco Pizarro

Ridges cut into the mountain sides to make more level land for farming .

• litter

• divining

• terraces

A knotted and colored device used for counting by the Incas.

• Huaca

• quipa

• papa

Studying objects to find magic signs

• divining

• achiote

• maguey

a sacred place or thing

• terrace

• huaca

• cotton

The name of Incan potatoes

• sara

• papa

• maguey

a chair on a platform, to carry the Inca

• huaca

• papa

• litter

workers built the roads to pay this to the Incan government.

• labor tax

• quipa

• achiote

the Incan name for corn

• maize

• sara

• huaca