7.2 Inca Empire

Which location best identifies where the Inca Empire settled in?

• Lake Texcoco, Mesoamerica

• Rocky Mountains, North America

• Andes Mountains, South America

• Table Mountain, North America

• Amazon Forest, South America

Which definition best matches the vocabulary word: terrace farming?

• A series of wide steps built into a mountainside, with each step creates farmland.

• A farming style created on flat plains near rivers and lakes.

• The language that the Inca people speak

• A retreat for Inca emperors, constructed with 1,000s of granite stones about 8,000 ft high in the Andes Mountains

• A rope with knotted cords of different lengths and colors, used for mathematics and record keeping

Which definition best matches the vocabulary word: Quechua?

• A series of wide steps built into a mountainside, with each step creates farmland.

• A farming style created on flat plains near rivers and lakes.

• The language that the Inca people speak.

• A retreat for Inca emperors, constructed with 1,000s of granite stones about 8,000 ft high in the Andes Mountains.

• A rope with knotted cords of different lengths and colors, used for mathematics and record keeping.

Which definition best matches the vocabulary word: Quipu?

• A series of wide steps built into a mountainside, with each step creates farmland.

• A farming style created on flat plains near rivers and lakes.

• The language that the Inca people speak.

• A retreat for Inca emperors, constructed with 1,000s of granite stones about 8,000 ft high in the Andes Mountains.

• A rope with knotted cords of different lengths and colors, used for mathematics and record keeping.

Which definition best matches the vocabulary word: Machu Picchu?

• A series of wide steps built into a mountainside, with each step creates farmland.

• A farming style created on flat plains near rivers and lakes.

• The language that the Inca people speak.

• A retreat for Inca emperors, constructed with 1,000s of granite stones about 8,000 ft high in the Andes Mountains.

• A rope with knotted cords of different lengths and colors, used for mathematics and record keeping.

Use context clues and make an inference to determine the meaning of distributed based in this sentence:

Inca government officials stored food when there were good harvests and distributed it when harvests were poor.

• declared war

• ranked by importance

• gathered and stored

• shared

• made copies

Which answer BEST describe how the Inca created their empire?

• The Inca raided and seized nearby groups and territory and were based on war.

• The Inca peacefully united their surrounded clans through law and order.

• They actually never created an empire and were always a small kingdom

• They used horseback warriors to conquer neighboring land and groups

Which three statements BEST describes how the Inca roads improved the Inca Empire?

• The roads helped transports soldiers

• The roads helped transports water

• The roads helped transport commercial goods and food

• The roads helped spread information across the empire through mountains and coastal deserts

• The Inca never actually built roads

Which estimate BEST identifies the length the Inca system of roads covered across their empire?

• 5,000 miles long

• 10,000 miles long

• 15,000 miles long

• 20,000 miles long

• 25,000 miles long

Identify which two similarities (means facts that are the same) that are the were shared between the Maya, Aztec and Inca civilizations all had ?

• All civilizations were built around war and did not use iron weapons or tools

• All civilizations were peaceful and built their empire in the mountains

• All civilizations sacrificed hundreds, if not thousands of war captives per year.

• All civilizations built pyramids in the middle of jungle

• All civilizations believed their ruler was a god-king descended from a sun-god.