The Rise of the Inca Empire
The most powerful person in Inca society.
What is the Sapa Inca?
The name of at least one present-day South American country the Inca Empire included.
What are Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina?
Around 1200 C.E., the Incas first settled their capital city.
What is Cuzco?
This was the reason the Incas worshipped their ruler.
What is they believed he was a God and had absolute power.
Inti was this important god.
What is the sun god?
Sets of strings on which the Inca wrote messages and kept records.
What is a quipu?
The name given to the girls who were selected to receive special religious training at Incan convents.
Who are the Chosen Women?
Conquered people had to learn to speak the Inca language.
What is Quechuan?
The Incas transmitted messages from one part of their empire to another.
What is a chasqui?
Members of Inca society who could only take one spouse.
What is a commoner?
The highest level of nobles and were relatives of the emperor.
Who were the Capa Incas?
The foundation of Inca society.
What is an ayllu?
It could grow at high altitudes.
What is the advantage of the potato?
The name for the god of the sun.
What is Inti?
Spirits the Inca believed live in sacred places.
What are huacas?