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WorksheetsTCI The Inca
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 15mins
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
Whats the name of the stone city built high up in the Andes including religious temples, royal residences, and houses for workers?
Andes
Cusco
Machu Picchu
Nahuatl
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
Who in the Inca Empire had absolute power?
the priest
the emperor
the farmers
the royal religious advisor
What helped rulers maintain tight control of the large empire?
the hierarchy of Inca society
Pachacuti
terraced farming
Machu Picchu
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
The Inca has ______ for meat and wool and for transporting goods and people across the mountains.
horses
llamas
alpaca and llamas
sheep
What allowed stones to carry water to the city (like in Rome!)?
terraced farming
aqueducts
Machu Picchu
quarried stone
Why is so little known about the early history of the Incas?
Aztecs took their books
There was a bad fire
They didn't have a system of writing
Their history books were hidden in Machu Picchu
What is a "set of strings with knots. The Number and size of the knots conveyed meaning to the Inca."
Quipu
Aqueducts
Hieroglyphics
Ropes
What color represents where the Inca civilization was?
blue
red
gray
green
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
How did the Incas develop the advances listed below?
• well-planned cities
• elaborate irrigation methods
learned them from the Spanish
learned them from the nobles
learned them from the Moches and Chimus
created them as original inventions
What did the Incas create to hold their empire together?
a network of roads
a central market
a school for sons of commoners
a flock of trained pigeons
The Inca Empire reached its peak in the same period as which group on the timeline below?
Olmec
Classic Maya
Toltec
Aztec Empire
What happened when a tribe became part of the Inca Empire?
The men of the tribe were only allowed to marry Inca women.
The tribe had to abandon its own religion and only worship Incan gods.
The tribe had to adopt the ways of the Incas
The children of the tribe were taken away to be raised by Incans.
The most important god to the Incas was
Viracocha, the creator of the world.
Inti, the sun god and god of agriculture.
Mama Cocha, the goddess of the sea.
Illapu, the weather god and rain giver.
Families in the Inca Empire belonged to larger clans called
quipus.
chasquis.
ayllus.
oracles.
