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WorksheetsInca Empire
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 39mins
What is the main reason the Incan Empire thrived?
Engineering
Selling crops
Irrigation
Building roads & bridges
How did the Inca expand and control of their empire?
The cut off trade with other places.
They killed everyone.
They built roads.
They made their own currency system.
How did the Inca road reflect local environment?
The Inca people used things from their environment to make the roads.
The road types varied to meet environment conditions.
Who used the Inca road(s)?
Ordinary people
Llamas
No one
Important and official people
What impact did Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala make?
Freed natives from Spanish
Accurate geographical drawings
Drew maps of regions in empire
Wrote books about local Incan life
How did the Inca road help feed the empire?
Food supplies were moved along the road.
Food grew along the road for locals to pick when they needed it.
Food supplies didn't move.
Food supplies were stored in "colcas."
What were the Incan storehouses called?
Colcas
Silos
La ensiladora
almacenamiento
Which of these is NOT a typical content stored in colcas?
Potatoes
Corn
Rice
Quinoa
How were Incan travelers housed?
Brick houses
Tents
In homes of townspeople
Tampu
How did the Inca road cross rivers?
Boats
Suspension bridges
Wooden canoes
They swam.
How did the Inca keep their suspension bridges safe?
Locals continuously rebuilt/replaced bridges with new materials.
Slaves worked to repair areas of concern.
Locals hired outside help.
Noblemen paid for the repairs.
How did the Inca control water?
They caught and stored it in buckets.
Stone irrigation channels
They drank it from the sky.
Magic
How did the Inca control erosion and grow crops in the Andes terrain?
They built terraces and used aqueducts.
Aqueducts
Irrigation
Terraces
