TCI The Inca

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