The Incas
North American Cultures
N.A.C cont.
The Incas cont.
100
a mountain range along the western edge of South America.
What are the Andes?
100
Objects people people make, such as tools, pottery, or jewelry.
What are artifacts?
100
A ceremony in which a wealthy and high-ranking family had a feast and gave gifts and shared stories.
What is a potlatch?
100
A cement mixture used to hold bricks together.
What is mortar?
200
Strips of level land that are planted with crops.
What is a terrace?
200
A period of little or no rain.
What is a drought?
200
Domed houses made from blocks of snow.
What is a igloo?
200
Which precious metals did the Incas use to make jewelry and for decorations.
What is silver and gold?
300
A record keeping device made of knotted strings.
What is a quipu?
300
Was a home formed by bending the trunks of young trees and tying them together to make a ROUND frame.
What is a wigwam?
300
Material was used to build homes in California and along the North Coast.
What is Cedar?
300
The center of Inca Government.
What is Cuzco?
400
A system for ranking members of a group according their importance.
What is HIERARCHY?
400
similar to a wigwam but rectangular.
What is a longhouse?
400
Its the way people acquired food
What is farmed, fished, and hunted?
400
The Inca made bridges out of...?
What are fibers?
500
A group of related families that pooled resources to meet people's needs.
Who were the ayllu?
500
Migrant groups lived in portable, cone-shaped homes called...?
Tepees.
500
Their hides were used to to make clothing, blankets, boats, and tepees.
What are bison?
500
The Inca had no written...?
What is Language?
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