Rise of the Incan Empire
The two groups of people who influenced the Incas
Who are the Moches and the Chimus?
The name of the emperor and top of the Incan class structure and who the Incas thought he descended from (who he was related to)?
What is Sapa Inca, descended from Inti, the sun god?
The name of large groups or clans in Incan society.
What are allyus?
The most important god in Incan society and why he was important
Who is Inti and what is (#1) the Incas believed that the emperor’s family was descended from Inti and (#2) Inti was also the god of agriculture, which was the basis of Incan life.
Steps the Sapa Inca took to bring groups into the empire.
What is not immediately declaring war and sending a delegate to meet with a tribe to explain that the tribe could join the Inca Empire and enjoy peace and prosperity. The alternative was war with the strong Incan army.
The modern-day countries where the Incan Empire existed. (There are 5.)
What are Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina?
The name of the primary wife of the Sapa Inca.
What is the Coya?
The name for Incan tax and the way taxes were paid by the Incan commoners
What is mit'a? What is by contributing labor to government projects each year.
The types of sacrifices made by the Incas.
What are:
Priests threw corn on a fire to encourage the sun to appear.
Sacrificed live animals, usually llamas or guinea pigs.
human sacrifice, but only on the most sacred occasions or in times of a natural disaster.
divination, the art of predicting the future.
What is war with the Incan where the Incas usually won? Sometimes, the Incas moved the defeated tribe to other parts of the empire, so that its people lost their native lands.
The name of the messengers who communicated information from the emperor.
What are Chasquis?
The three types of nobles
Who are the Capac Incas (considered relatives of the emperor), Hahua Incas (not relatives of the emperor; and curacas (the leaders of people conquered by the Incas).
The type of education commoners received and the type of education nobles received.
Commoners learned Incan customs from their elders. Some especially talented boys were trained in crafts or record keeping to serve the emperor.
Nobles had tutors (Amautas) who taught religion, geometry, history, military strategy, public speaking, and physical training. The took tests and swore loyalty to the Sapa Inca.
The ages girls were selected to be Chosen Women
What is between the ages of 8 and 10?
What people who joined the Incan empire had to do
What is adopting Incan ways, such as building a sun temple, accepting the Incan gods as the most powerful, sending local leaders to Cuzco to study Incan laws and language (Quechua)?
The knotted strings used as memory aids by messengers and used to help record and track population and achievements.
What are quipus?
What is collecting taxes, working as inspectors, making sure everyone followed Incan laws and customs, such as wearing proper clothing and keeping clean homes. (They were required to spend time in Cuzco learning these laws and customs.)
The approximate ages when Incan men and women married.
Young men married in their early 20s, while girls could marry at 16.
Some duties of Chosen Women
What is Chosen Women were taken to live in convents, where they studied Incan religion, learned how to prepare special food and drink for religious ceremonies, and wove garments for the Sapa Inca and the Coya.
The reason the Incan took a religious object from a defeated tribe
What is to the object was hold the object “hostage”? (If the tribe rebelled, the government could destroy the sacred object, although the Incas claimed they acted out of respect for the local religion.
Two ways the Moches and Chimus influenced the Incas.
What are:
Building well-planned cities
Digging irrigation canals
Developing special classes of workers
Built roads and created a messenger system using runners
The social class that most Incan belonged to and some jobs they did.
What are commoners, who worked as farmers and herders.
The steps to marriage in Incan society.
People married within their ayllu. Some marriages were arranged by families or by the young people themselves. Sometimes the local curaca chose a wife for a young man who was not yet married. When a couple agreed they would marry, they held hands and exchanged sandals.
What happened to Chosen Women after age 15.
What is they left their convents and some went to work in temples or shrines, while others became convent teachers, and others went to Cuzco and became wives of nobles or secondary wives of the Sapa Inca.
The unique Incan belief that may have led to conquering such a huge empire.
What is the idea that even after death the Sapa Inca continued to rule the lands he had conquered? For the new emperor to establish his own source of power and wealth, he had to take new lands.