Diseases and Contact
A serious disease that spreads from person to person and causes a fever and rash
What is smallpox?
What immediate advantage did Francisco Pizarro exploit to capture the Inca ruler Atahualpa in 1532?
What is "He used a surprise ambush at Cajamarca during a meeting with Atahualpa"?
Why were the llamas so important to the Inca?
What are "Carrying loads in the steep Andes mountains; wool for clothing; hide for rugs/coats; meat for food (charqui); waste for fuel and fertilizer"?
A body’s ability to remain free of illness even after being exposed to the cause of the illness.
What is immunity?
Which long-term factor most contributed to the rapid collapse of Inca resistance after Pizarro’s conquest?
What is "Civil war and political instability within the Inca Empire prior to Spanish arrival"?
A South American mammal valued for its long, woolly coat.
What is an alpaca?
What was a quipu and how did the Inca use messengers to manage an empire without a written language?
What is "A quipu was a set of strings with knots that officials used to record numbers (like troops or food). Fast runners memorized messages and passed them along a relay of stations so information could travel quickly across the empire"?
A situation in which a disease spreads to many people in an area or region.
What is an epidemic?
Which long-term factor most contributed to the rapid collapse of Inca resistance after Pizarro’s conquest?
What is "Civil war and political instability within the Inca Empire prior to Spanish arrival."
A South American mammal valued for its endurance and for its woolly coat and meat.
What is a llama?
What purposes did the Royal Road serve in the Inca Empire?
What is "It was a vast road network of more than 2,000 miles along the west coast of South America. It was used for officials, armies, traders, and messengers to move quickly across the empire."?
Which event weakened the Aztec ability to resist the Spanish conquest during Cortés’s campaign?
What is "The spread of smallpox and other European diseases among the indigenous population"?
Name three crops the Inca grew.
What are potatoes, corn, squash?
How did terraces and irrigation help the Inca farm on steep mountain slopes?
What is "They cut terraces into the mountain sides to create level fields for planting and harvesting like valley farms, and they built irrigation systems to bring water to those terraced fields. This prevented water from simply running downhill and washing out crops."?
What are "Alliances with indigenous groups hostile to the Aztecs"?
Name three animals the Inca raised.
What are llamas, alpacas, guinea pigs?
What is "They cut them so precisely that they fit together without needing to use any mortar. The advantage was that the tight fit made walls and paved roads extremely stable, durable, and long lasting. Roads did not get washed away during rainstorms. Buildings did not fall during earthquakes."?