Geography
This mountain range was almost completely within the Inca empire.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This term describes the Inca belief in more than one god or goddess.
What is polytheistic?
The Inca carved these into mountainsides to create flat land for planting crops.
What are terraces?
This is the title of the all-powerful emperor who ruled the Inca government.
What is the Sapa Inca?
The Inca farmers paid two kinds of these.
What are taxes?
he Inca people were organized into family units of 10-20 people called this.
What are ayllus?
Name three geographical regions included in the Inca empire.
What are the coastal desert, mountains, and jungle?
This was the most important god to the Inca people, whom they called "the Children of the Sun".
Who is Inti, the sun god?
The Inca developed these to capture snow and rainfall to irrigate crops on terraces.
What are irrigation canals?
To make ruling easier, the Inca empire was split into these four quarters.
What are suyus?
The Inca divided their harvest into three parts: one for the government, one for the priests, and one for this.
What is the ayllu?
This is generally applied to men ages 16-60 to spend part of the year working for the government.
What is a labor tax?
This is the approximate length, in miles, that the Inca empire stretched along South America’s west coast.
What is 2,500 miles?
This is the name of the Inca temple for Inti, which means "golden temple".
What is Coricancha?
This is one of the most famous Inca ruins in the entire world, untouched by the Spanish.
What is Machu Picchu?
This is the city at the center of the four suyus where the Sapa Inca lived.
What is Cuzco?
This is the term for the labor tax on men of fit working age, who were required to spend part of the year working for the government.
What is Mita?
Inca women got married between these ages.
What are 12 and 16 years old?
These high, flat areas in the Andes were important to Inca society and are where modern cities like La Paz were built.
What are plateaus?
These were sacred places or objects in which the Inca believed spirits lived.
What are huacas?
The Inca road system became the largest and most advanced of these in South America.
What is a road system?
Commoners who did this on Inca roads could be killed.
What is trespassing?
This is what the Sapa Inca received in exchange for promising protection, also allowing the local leaders kids to go to school in cusco then to join the inca nobility.
What is joining the Inca empire?
This is what happened to Inca children when deciding on a career.
What is having the same careers as their parents?
This modern-day country is where many Inca descendants live and continue to practice Inca traditions.
What is Peru?
The Inca believed in this, and therefore mummified their dead.
What is an afterlife?
The Inca were the first to plant these, which were hardy enough to grow in poor soil conditions and withstand freezing temperatures.
What are potatoes?
This is who captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa in 1532.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Many people had to pay their taxes through this, where they worked for the government as soldiers, builders, or farmers.
What is labor?
Starting at the age of 14, men of this Inca class wore large gold earplugs.
Who are the nobility?