Rise of the Incas
Inca Society
Inca Achievements
100
A vast grassy plains of Argentina and Uruguay.
What is the great Pampas?
100
This is a system for ranking members for a group according to their importance.
What is a hierarchy?
100
A welfare state is a government that takes responsibility for the well-being of its citizens.
The Incas formed an early version of what today is called a welfare state. What is a welfare state?
200
They are flat strips of level land.
What are terraces?
200
The nobles at birth
What type of nobles were at the top?
200
engineering; architecture
The Incas were practical people that was evident for ________ and _________.
300
The Sapa Incas were Pachacuti and then Huayna Capac
List the order of the great Sapa Incas.
300
Ayllu is was a group of related families that lived in the same location.
Commoners live in an ayllus which is...
300
sweat of the sun; tears of the moon
incas called gold ________ and silver _________.
400
They often sang blood-thirsty victory songs to terrify an enemy.
What types of songs would the Inca soldiers sing marching into battle?
400
The Incas never developed a system of writing.
Why did the Incas have little theology for scholars to use and learn about their society?
400
A record-keeping device made of knotted strings
What is a quipu?
500
The empire stretched 2,500 miles.
The Incas ruled a stable empire that stretched ____________ miles.
500
polytheistic
Were the Incas monotheistic or polytheistic?
500
This means the managment of government or buisness.
What is administration?
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