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WorksheetsIncan government and the Spanish Conquest
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
What types of people lived in the Incan empire?
Only people who live in Peru
Only people who spoke Incan
People of all kinds of race, religion, and language.
Only people who believed in the Incan Sun God
Who ruled the Incan empire?
A council
Elected Representatives
Each state ran themselves
A King
What was the physical geography of the Incan Empire like?
High mountains
Desert
Forest
All of the Above
What was one thing the Incan King used to rule in tranquility, with peace and friendship?
Free stuff
Delegates
The ability to rule themselves
Strict rules
Did the people follow the Incan King because they were friends and they liked him?
True
False
What did the Incan King demand regularly from each city? What might they also get severely punished for not giving honestly?
Sacrifices
Regular Updates
Nothing
Tribute
What was used to keep track of Incan tributes and people?
Letters
Nothing, Spoken Word
A Quipus
Signs
What did the Incan people who were sick, injured, or otherwise unable to work do?
Get supplies from the storehouse
Die
Work anyways
They took from the tribute
When would an Incan city access their storehouses?
Whenever they wanted
For tributes
In time of war or when they had a bad crop that year
When someone died
What was in each Incan city or village?
A representative (a.k.a. delegate)
A quipus
Silversmiths
All of the above
True or False: The Mayans existed after the Aztecs.
True- They stayed in the area
False- Not as a nation
True- How else would we know about them?
False- They were all killed by the Europeans
True or False: After the Europeans visited, the Mayans lived very rich lives.
True
False
Who was the King of the Aztecs?
Montezuma
Cortez
Pizzaro
Quetecotal
Which European made friends with the Aztec King, only to wipe out his entire capital?
Columbus
Cortez
Pizzaro
Mikasha
What did the Aztec King first think Cortez was?
A traveler
A God
A magician
No one
When did the Spanish kill the Aztecs?
On a Monday
During a fiesta, or celebration
Right away
The next month
Do you think Atahualpa had seen a book before?
Yes, the Incans could read.
No, he didn't know how to open it and threw it on the ground.
No, he thought it was cursed.
Yes, because he did take it from the monk.
When did the Spanish start to kill the Incans?
After "the Governor" (a Spaniard) shouted "Santiago!"
After Atahualpa accused the Governor of stealing clothes from a storehouse.
After the Monk offered him a bible.
After "the Governor" (a Spaniard) shouted "Santiago!" AND After Atahualpa accused the Governor of stealing clothes from a storehouse.
Even after Atahualpa offered a lot of gold and silver to the Spanish, what did they eventually do to him?
After imprisoning him for a long time, he converted to Christianity. Afterwards, he was strangled him to death.
After being imprisoned shortly, he was burned to death.
He refused to convert to Christianity, and was then strangled to death.
He converted to Christianity, and then was burned to death anyways.
