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Incan government and the Spanish Conquest

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What types of people lived in the Incan empire?

a)

Only people who live in Peru

b)

Only people who spoke Incan

c)

People of all kinds of race, religion, and language.

d)

Only people who believed in the Incan Sun God

2.

Who ruled the Incan empire?

a)

A council

b)

Elected Representatives

c)

Each state ran themselves

d)

A King

3.

What was the physical geography of the Incan Empire like?

a)

High mountains

b)

Desert

c)

Forest

d)

All of the Above

4.

What was one thing the Incan King used to rule in tranquility, with peace and friendship?

a)

Free stuff

b)

Delegates

c)

The ability to rule themselves

d)

Strict rules

5.

Did the people follow the Incan King because they were friends and they liked him?

a)

True

b)

False

6.

What did the Incan King demand regularly from each city? What might they also get severely punished for not giving honestly?

a)

Sacrifices

b)

Regular Updates

c)

Nothing

d)

Tribute

7.

What was used to keep track of Incan tributes and people?

a)

Letters

b)

Nothing, Spoken Word

c)

A Quipus

d)

Signs

8.

What did the Incan people who were sick, injured, or otherwise unable to work do?

a)

Get supplies from the storehouse

b)

Die

c)

Work anyways

d)

They took from the tribute

9.

When would an Incan city access their storehouses?

a)

Whenever they wanted

b)

For tributes

c)

In time of war or when they had a bad crop that year

d)

When someone died

10.

What was in each Incan city or village?

a)

A representative (a.k.a. delegate)

b)

A quipus

c)

Silversmiths

d)

All of the above

11.

True or False: The Mayans existed after the Aztecs.

a)

True- They stayed in the area

b)

False- Not as a nation

c)

True- How else would we know about them?

d)

False- They were all killed by the Europeans

12.

True or False: After the Europeans visited, the Mayans lived very rich lives.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Who was the King of the Aztecs?

a)

Montezuma

b)

Cortez

c)

Pizzaro

d)

Quetecotal

14.

Which European made friends with the Aztec King, only to wipe out his entire capital?

a)

Columbus

b)

Cortez

c)

Pizzaro

d)

Mikasha

15.

What did the Aztec King first think Cortez was?

a)

A traveler

b)

A God

c)

A magician

d)

No one

16.

When did the Spanish kill the Aztecs?

a)

On a Monday

b)

During a fiesta, or celebration

c)

Right away

d)

The next month

17.

Do you think Atahualpa had seen a book before?

a)

Yes, the Incans could read.

b)

No, he didn't know how to open it and threw it on the ground.

c)

No, he thought it was cursed.

d)

Yes, because he did take it from the monk.

18.

When did the Spanish start to kill the Incans?

a)

After "the Governor" (a Spaniard) shouted "Santiago!"

b)

After Atahualpa accused the Governor of stealing clothes from a storehouse.

c)

After the Monk offered him a bible.

d)

After "the Governor" (a Spaniard) shouted "Santiago!" AND After Atahualpa accused the Governor of stealing clothes from a storehouse.

19.

Even after Atahualpa offered a lot of gold and silver to the Spanish, what did they eventually do to him?

a)

After imprisoning him for a long time, he converted to Christianity. Afterwards, he was strangled him to death.

b)

After being imprisoned shortly, he was burned to death.

c)

He refused to convert to Christianity, and was then strangled to death.

d)

He converted to Christianity, and then was burned to death anyways.