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

Who was the Inca emperor whose name means "he who changed the world"? He began the expansion of the empire.

• Priest

• Pachacuti

• Cortes

• Moctezuma II

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

• Hernan Cortes

Who was the Inca Emperor while the Spanish invaded? He was eventually captured and executed.

• Pachacuti

• Machu Picchu

• Pizarro

• Atahualpa

What is a "set of strings with knots. The Number and size of the knots conveyed meaning to the Inca."

• Quipu

• Aqueducts

• Hieroglyphics

• Ropes

As elevation _________________, temperature ___________________.

• increases; increases

• increases; decreases

What was ‘chaski’ in the Inca empire?

• A priest who worked in the temple

• A scientist who studies the stars

• A runner who carried messages

• An inspector who made sure people payed their taxes

• A person who constructed the roads

This location gets.

Bars= Precipitation

Temp=Line

• All four seasons

• Wet/Dry Seasons

• Spring Summer Fall