Inca

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 at

• Tenochtitlan

• Texcoco

• Copan

• Cusco

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

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

The Inca was the

• earliest empire to rise and fall

• most recent empire to rise and fall

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

The people of the Inca empire

• all spoke ONLY 1 language

• were all very similar

• were diverse and spoke over 20 languages

• were diverse but spoke ONLY one language

Who in the Inca Empire had absolute power?

• the priest

• the emperor

• the farmers

• the royal religious advisor