Geography
What mountain range is the Inca civilization primarily located in?
What are the Andes Mountains?
What does it mean to be polytheistic?
What is believing in more than one god or goddess?
Who was the absolute ruler of the Inca empire?
Who is the Sapa Inca?
What is an ayllu?
What is a family unit that lived and worked together?
What method did the Inca use to create flat land for farming?
What is terrace farming?
Name the three geographical regions included in the Inca empire.
What are coastal desert, mountains, and jungle?
Who was the most important god to the Inca people?
Who is Inti, the sun god?
What is the term for the divisions of the Inca empire called?
What are suyus?
How many families typically made up an ayllu?
What is 10-20 people?
How did the Inca irrigate their crops on terraces?
What is by capturing snow and rainfall using channels?
What is a plateau, and why was it important to the Inca society?
What is a high, flat area important for building cities like La Paz?
What was Coricancha, and why was it significant?
What is the golden temple for Inti, covered in gold?
How did the Sapa Inca manage the vast territory of the empire?
What is through a complex central government and governors?
What types of taxes did farmers pay?
What are crop taxes and labor taxes?
What were the main crops grown by the Inca?
What are corn, quinoa, and potatoes?
What fascinating fact is mentioned about the Andes Mountains?
What is that they make up the longest mountain range in the world?
Why did the Inca mummify their dead?
What is because they believed in an afterlife?
What did the Sapa Inca do with his clothing after wearing it?
What is burn it?
At what age did Inca women typically get married?
What is between 12 and 16 years old?
What was one of the key features of Inca road construction?
What is that they provided a system for travel across rugged terrain?
How did the Inca adapt to the diverse geographical features of their empire?
What is by developing ways to farm and live on different types of land?
Why did the Inca call themselves "Children of the Sun"?
What is because of their devotion to the sun god, Inti?
What would happen to a Sapa Inca when he died?
What is he would be mummified and buried in his palace?
How did noble children differ from commoner children in education?
What is noble children went to school, while commoner children did not?
Why were irrigation canals important to Inca agriculture?
What is they directed water to drier areas for crops?