Chapter Incas

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

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

• Aztec

• Inca

• Maya

• Conquistadors

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

Setting up a strong central government helped Pachacuti

• get a lot of alpaca

• get a lot of llamas

• control the large Inca Empire

• eat a lot of corn

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

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

Who in the Inca Empire had absolute power?

• the priest

• the emperor

• the farmers

• the royal religious advisor

In the Inca Empire, commoners

• carved terraces and planted crops

• farmed communal lands and worked on state-owned farms

• served in the army and on building projects

• all of the above