Social Structure
The Empire
Food
Misc
100

You could not do this to the Sapa Inca, since you were symbolically beneath his status

Look him in the eye

100

In order to us the mountainous land for farming and housing, the Incan people did what to the landscape?

Terracing 

100

This soda, sold in modern Peru today, tastes like bubble gum and is dyed yellow as a nod to the rumored wealth of the Inca

Inca Kola

100

What is the name of the capital city of the Incan Empire?

Cusco

200

The Sapa Inca was _______ everywhere he went

Carried

200

Name three types of environments that the Incan people lived in throughout the Empire

Coastal Desert

Rainforest

Mountains

200

Pachamanca is a traditional Incan feast with 7 different meats shared at a table "family style".  Name 3 kinds of the meat

Beef, Pork, Lamb, Mutton, Chicken, Guinea Pig, Llama

200

Name the lake that borders Peru and Bolivia

Lake Titicaca

300

These messengers would run distances of 3-5 miles each to pass on the quipu and a message

Chasquis

300

This Royal City was "rediscovered" by Hiram Bigham in 1911 in the Andean Highlands

Machu Picchu

300

This food, also called Maize in Mesoamerica, was popular throughout the Incan Empire

Corn

300

This group predated the Inca in Peru and are known for their desert line designs

Nazca

400
Unlike the Aztec nobility, to be a member of the Inca nobility, you had to...

Be born into it

400

Approximately how many miles long was the Incan Empire from top to bottom?

2,500 miles

400

This staple crop had never been seen in the "Old World" before the 1500s, but the Irish would become so dependent upon it in their diet that over a million people died when this crop had a failure in the mid 1800s.

Potatoes

400

What was the Quipu used for?

Relaying messages, keeping count of llamas, keeping count of food, keeping various records

500

The title of the leader of the Inca

Sapa Inca

500

When the Inca conquered a new region, what did the Inca allow the conquered group to do?

Keep their own leaders and rule themselves

500

What is Cuy?

Guinea Pig

500

What was a Quipu made of/look like?

Knotted strings of cotton or wool