The Incas

A Yamakuna's job is to:

• Take care of the llamas

• Run with messages throughout the towns

• Cook food

• Be soldiers

Much of the land that was once the Inca Empire is in which countries today?

• Peru and Ecuador

• Brazil and Paraguay

• Mexico and Guatemala

• Colombia and Venezuela

According to Incan legend, the Inca tribe began when the sun god’s son

• rose out of Lake Titcaca.

• crossed the Pacific Ocean.

• saw an eagle on top of a cactus.

• stepped out from the eastern sky.

The Inca Empire reached its peak in the same period as which group on the timeline below?

• Olmec culture

• Classic Maya

• Toltec civilization

• Aztec Empire

The Incas lived for hundreds of years without spreading their civilization. What set off the expansion of their

empire?

• a need for more trading partners

• a priestly message from the gods

• a sudden need for more farmland

• an attack by a neighboring people

What did the Incas create to hold their empire together?

• a central market

• a network of roads

• a group of trained warriors

• a school for sons of commoners

What belongs in bottom row of this chart?

• winners of major battles

• scholars who did well in school

• local leaders of conquered people

• favorites chosen by the royal wives

How would an Incan priest most likely use an oracle?

• to collect taxes for the temple

• to ask advice about the future

• to study how to perform rituals

• to sacrifice animals to the gods

After the Incas conquered a new area, why were local leaders and their sons brought to Cuzco?

• to get sacred objects back

• to be sacrificed to the sun god

• to learn Incan law and language

• to tell the emperor their concerns

Here are two facts about the Inca Empire. These facts explain why the Incas

• had legends about their origin.

• conquered many other groups.

• used runners to carry messages.

• built their capital in the mountains.