Location
Continent where Inca Empire was located
South America
Aztec King - rumored to drink 50 cups of hot chocolate a day
Montezuma
Inca Recording device used to keep track of supplies and population. Carried by chasquis and read by government officials.
quipu
Language spoken by the Incan Conquerors
Spanish
Animal on Mexican flag that is eating a rattlesnake
Eagle
Country where Machu Picchu is located
Peru
Last Inca Emperor
Atahualpa
Made out of ichu grass and used cross rivers and keep the Inca Empire connected.
Suspension Bridges
Language of the Inca
Quechua
Pet in the USA, small animal used for food in the Inca Empire
Guinea Pig
Longest mountain range in the world. Mountain range where the Inca built their empire
Andes
Lowest social class in the inca empire
farmers
A technique where parts of the mountain were cut out in order to create level tiers of flat farm land.
terrace farming
How did Inca people purchase supplies?
Barter / trade for them
Which two animals would NOT be found in the Inca Empire? (Llama, alpaca, goat, chicken, Andean Bear, Puma)
goats, chickens
Aztec capital city
Tenochtitlan
Name for the Inca King
Sapa Inca
Sub-terranean tunnel that uses gravity-fed engineering to irrigate agricultural terraces and crops
Aqueduct (puquio)
Official language of Peru and Mexico today
Spanish
Name a food they would have eaten in the Aztec Empire
Avocado, pineapple, corn tortillas, squash, hot chocolate
Capital of the Inca Empire
Cusco
Name the Inca had for their sun god
Inti
Choose the invention that was not Incan:
freeze drying food wagon and wheel
suspension bridges aqueducts / irrigation systems
wagon and wheel
These were so valuable to the Aztec they often used them as currency
Cocoa beans
This animal represented power, ferocity, and the night sky to the Aztec
Jaguar