L29 Inca

What region of the Americas do we find the Inca empire located in?

• Sierra Madre Mountains

• Andes Mountains

• Amazon Rainforest

• Yucatan Peninsula

Around 1200 C.E. (A.D.), the Incas first settled their capital city, which they called

• Yupanqui

• Chancas.

• Pachacuti.

• Cuzco.

Who ruled the Inca?

• It was a republic

• The Sapa Inca

• The Pope

• The One True Man

What system of farming did the Inca develop in order to farm in the mountains? 

• Chinampas
• Irrigation
• Aqueducts
• Terrace Farming

What was the main food for the Inca Empire?

• corn

• fish

• potatoes,

• rice

The Inca used______ for meat and wool and for transporting goods and people across the mountains.

• horses

• oxen

• alpaca and llamas

• sheep

The Inca leadership used the quipus (cord with knots) to:

• decorate their clothes

• count, collect data and keep records 

• to crown the Supa Inca

• dry their food

What is one way the Inca managed such a vast, long empire?

• They had a pony express

• They wrote letters and made post offices

• People were free to govern their own area of the empire

• They built an extrensive road system and ran messengers (chasquis)

To connect their roads across the mountain canyons what did they build?

• tressle bridges from wood

• rope bridges

• floating bridges from boats

• zip-lines

What is the mit'a system?

• A tax of labor - peasants had to build the empire's roads and storehouses or work in gold mines.

• A tribute system - payments were made in cotton fabric and gold

• A religious practice observed by the Inca

• the schooling system of the Inca where they taught customs and language of the Inca to conquered people