Agriculture
How were the Inca able to farm on steep mountains
Terraces
How would the king send messages to distant parts of the empire?
Messengers would run and pass messages or quipu
How do we know the Inca were good at building with stone?
The cuts are so exact you can't put anything in between the rocks/ they didn't use any mortar
What is the name of the mountain range where the Inca live
Andes
What did the government do with the food it stored?
Shared with villages during emergencies or if the harvest was bad
How many miles (or kilometers) of roads did the Inca build?
about 14,000 miles (Discovery video)
or 40,000 km (BBC video)
Why do we have such limited information about the Inca?
They had no written language
From what lake did their god Viracocha emerge?
Lake Titicaca
What is irrigation
A system of canals to channel water to farmland
How did the Inca transport heavy loads?
They used llamas because they had no carts or wagons
Why did everyone have to learn Quechua?
To unify people in the empire
What desert is in the northern part of Chile
Atacama
What city did Hiram Bingham discover in 1911?
Machu Picchu
What kind of food did the Inca grow? (name at least 2)
Corn, potatoes, squash, beans
How often would they need to replace a rope bridge
Every 3 years
Were the Inca polytheistic or monotheistic?
What was the capital of the Inca empire?
Cusco, Peru
What is the name of the last remaining Inca rope bridge
Why was the BBC and PBS videos reliable sources for doing our CWT research?
They rely on experts, they do research, they are well- known companies
What is a quipu
A system of strings used to keep track of events and resources
Name 3 countries where the Inca empire was
Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Bolivia, or Argentina
What is the highest mountain in South America
Aconcagua