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

• Aztec

• Inca

• Maya

• Conquistadors

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

The capital city of the Incan Empire was ____

• Machu Picchu
• Divining
• Cuzco
• Huacas

The official language of the Inca

• Quechua

• Latin

• Quipu

• Spanish

How did the Inca pay taxes?

• Gold and silver jewelry

• In labor

• Food trade

• Slavery

The Incan were polytheistic. Which god was their most important?

• Moon Goddess

• Maize

• tlaoc

• Sun God

The achievement that involved cutting into the side of a mountain to grow crops is called

• terraces

• masonry

• network of roads

• quipus