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TCI The Inca

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where did the Inca live?

a)

Yucatan Peninsula

b)

South America, specifically mostly modern Peru

c)

Central Mexico

2.

The Andes

a)

are a mountain range where the Inca Empire was established

b)

are a civilization that was built in central Mexico

c)

are a series of lakes in Peru

3.

The capital of the Inca Empire was at

a)

Tenochtitlan

b)

Texcoco

c)

Copan

d)

Cusco

4.

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

a)

Aztec

b)

Inca

c)

Maya

d)

Conquistadors

5.

Whats the name of the stone city built high up in the Andes including religious temples, royal residences, and houses for workers?

a)

Andes

b)

Cusco

c)

Machu Picchu

d)

Nahuatl

6.

Cutting flat steps or terraces into the side of a mountain to have more land to cultivate is known as

a)

tribute

b)

quechua

c)

terrace farming

d)

chinampas farming

7.

Who in the Inca Empire had absolute power?

a)

the priest

b)

the emperor

c)

the farmers

d)

the royal religious advisor

8.

What helped rulers maintain tight control of the large empire?

a)

the hierarchy of Inca society

b)

Pachacuti

c)

terraced farming

d)

Machu Picchu

9.

In the Inca Empire, commoners

a)

carved terraces and planted crops

b)

farmed communal lands and worked on state-owned farms

c)

served in the army and on building projects

d)

all of the above

10.

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

a)

horses

b)

llamas

c)

alpaca and llamas

d)

sheep

11.

What allowed stones to carry water to the city (like in Rome!)?

a)

terraced farming

b)

aqueducts

c)

Machu Picchu

d)

quarried stone

12.

Why is so little known about the early history of the Incas?

a)

Aztecs took their books

b)

There was a bad fire

c)

They didn't have a system of writing

d)

Their history books were hidden in Machu Picchu

13.

What is a "set of strings with knots. The Number and size of the knots conveyed meaning to the Inca."

a)

Quipu

b)

Aqueducts

c)

Hieroglyphics

d)

Ropes

14.
Where did the Inca live?
a)
South America
b)
Mexico
c)
Central America
d)
United States
15.
The piece of architectural seen here.
a)
step pyramids
b)
Machu Picchu
c)
Cuzco
d)
Quechua
16.

What color represents where the Inca civilization was?

a)

blue

b)

red

c)

gray

d)

green

17.
Who were the Capac Incas?
a)
Owners of farm lands
b)
Church rulers
c)
Highest level of nobles
d)
Cops of the lands
18.
To what class did most people in the Inca Empire belong?
a)
Commoners 
b)
Nobles
c)
Knights
d)
Peasants 
19.

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

a)

Peru and Ecuador

b)

Brazil and Paraguay

c)

Mexico and Guatemala

d)

Colombia and Venezuela

20.

How did the Incas develop the advances listed below?


• well-planned cities

• elaborate irrigation methods

a)

learned them from the Spanish

b)

learned them from the nobles

c)

learned them from the Moches and Chimus

d)

created them as original inventions

21.

What did the Incas create to hold their empire together?

a)

a network of roads

b)

a central market

c)

a school for sons of commoners

d)

a flock of trained pigeons

22.

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

a)

Olmec

b)

Classic Maya

c)

Toltec

d)

Aztec Empire

23.

What happened when a tribe became part of the Inca Empire?

a)

The men of the tribe were only allowed to marry Inca women.

b)

The tribe had to abandon its own religion and only worship Incan gods.

c)

The tribe had to adopt the ways of the Incas

d)

The children of the tribe were taken away to be raised by Incans.

24.

The most important god to the Incas was

a)

Viracocha, the creator of the world.

b)

Inti, the sun god and god of agriculture.

c)

Mama Cocha, the goddess of the sea.

d)

Illapu, the weather god and rain giver.

25.

Families in the Inca Empire belonged to larger clans called

a)

quipus.

b)

chasquis.

c)

ayllus.

d)

oracles.

26.
What was the Inca labor tax?
a)
Forced commoners to provide free labor
b)
It forced the rich to provide free labor
c)
Forced leaders to provide free labor
d)
Made everyone provide free labor
27.
Which is not associated with Machu Picchu?
a)
8000 feet above sea level
b)
Royal estate for Pachacuti
c)
Walls made of granite
d)
Was not part of the Inca empire
28.
What caused the decline of the Inca empire?
a)
Smallpox
b)
Civil War
c)
Both A and B
d)
None of these