Term for Incan runner and message carrier

Spanish explorer whose troops conquered the Inca

A counting tool made from a cord with knotted strings

An empire first established sometime before 1200 in the central Andes Mountain region

A mountain range extending over 4,000 miles through the modern nations of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.

A word meaning "center" or "navel," this was the capital city of the Inca

The language of the Inca

A practice where flat surfaces are cut into steep slopes to get the most of difficult terrain

The ruler of the Inca Empire at the time they were conquered by the Spaniards

An Incan mountain settlement; it never had a population over about 1000 people,