Politics
Primary Governing Structure of the Incas.
What is a centralized government led by the Sapa Inca?
The main economic activity of the the Incas.
What is agriculture, particular the cultivation of maize?
The Primary language of the Incan Empire
What is Quechua?
The Mountain range that ran through the Incan empire.
What are the Andes Mountains?
A document or physical object created during a specific time period.
What is a primary source?
How did the Inca ensure loyalty among their subjects?
What is the use of a network of roads and communication, along with a system of labor taxation, and a redistributive system when times where tough?
The Incan system to manage their large population economically.
What is through the implementation of the Mit'a labor system?
An important Incan architectural achievement.
What is Machu Picchu?
The influence geography had on Incan agriculture.
What is the use of Terrace Farming to adapt to mountainous and rocky terrain?
An example of a secondary source.
What is a textbook or article analyzing Incan culture?
The role the Inca's religious beliefs played in their political system.
What is the belief that the Sapa Inca was a descendant of the Sun God Inti.
The Incan approach to trade.
What is limited trade with neighboring regions, primarily for goods not produced locally?
How did the Inca view their gods in relation to their daily lives?
What is they believed that gods were involved in every aspect of life and agriculture?
The region that the Incas primarily inhabited.
What is the western coast of South America?
The differences between primary and secondary sources.
What are primary sources are firsthand accounts, while secondary sources interpret or analyze those account?
A way the Inca's dealt with conquered peoples to maintain control.
What is the practice of resettling conquered peoples and integrating them into the Inca society?
What is facilitated trade and movement of goods throughout the empire?
The name of the Main God of the Incas.
Who is Inti?
The environmental challenges the Incas faced.
What are rocky terrains and mountains?
The value of primary sources to Historians.
What is they provide direct evidence about the past?
How did the Inca use diplomacy to expand their empire?
What is forming alliances with neighboring tribes and using marriage to secure agreements?
How did the Inca's economy reflect their social structure?
What is the economy was organized around communal labor and resource sharing?
The significance of textiles in Incan society.
What is textiles were not only practical but also a symbol of status and cultural identity?
Benefits of the Mountains.
What are serving as a natural barrier against invaders?
Bias' affect on Historical Writing.
What is bias can lead to a skewed interpretation of events and influence the understanding of history?