Inca

The Inca lived in the Andes Mountains in

• North America

• Central America

• South America

• none of these

What year did Patchacuti begin his conquest of the Cuzco Valley and begin the Inca empire?

• 1300

• 1438

• 1521

• 1535

How did the Inca manage to farm on the sides of mountains?

• terraces

• chinampas

• slash-and-burn

• magic

Primary Incan crops were

• maize and beans

• coffee and potatoes

• coffee and beans

• maize and potatoes

What language did the Inca speak?

• Mam

• Ketchi

• Nahatl

• Quechua

The Incan economy thrived on huge open markets.

• True

• False

What was the series of knotted cords the Inca used to record information?

• quipu

• mita

• tribute

• glyphs

In what ways were llamas useful to the Inca?

• They were pack animals and they were talking internet sensations.

• They provided food and their spit had medicinal properties.

• Their wool provided clothes and they were used in sacrifice. (Their lungs could be read to tell the future!)

• They did circus tricks at festivals and people dressed them up as suma wrestlers for the sacred llama fights of Patchacuti.

What skill were the Inca well known for in building their mountain cities and farms?

• masonry

• blueprints

• coding

• fighting

What is the estimated population of the Inca at the height of their empire?

• 10 million

• 12 million

• 14 million

• 16 million