Pre-Inca Cultures
Large geometric designs and shapes drawn on the ground.
Geoglyphs
The Inca were originally settled in what today is... what country?
Peru
This impressive stone-city sits high on a mountain in Peru.
Machu Picchu
The Spanish conquistadors were barely 200 men, but they had these advantages...
Horses and superior weapons
The Incas raised these animals for meat and wool.
Llamas and alpacas
This pre-Inca culture built complex irrigation systems and ruled nearly 400 miles of the Peruvian coast.
The Moche
The Inca made up for the lack of flat farmland with a type of farming called...
Terrace farming
The Inca were gifted engineers and...
Builders
What seems to be the conquistadors' first motivation?
Gold
The Inca empire stretched from present-day Colombia all the way down to...
Argentina
This pre-Inca culture established the first empire in the region of the Andes Mountains.
The Wari
Under the leadership of this emperor, the empire expanded rapidly.
Pachacuti
Throughout their empire, the Inca built an extensive network of...
Roads
Name of the last Inca emperor.
Atahualpa
Around how many people lived in the Inca empire?
12 million people
This pre-Inca culture created enormous geometric designs and shapes drawn on the ground. Archaeologists are still not certain what the purpose of the designs was.
The Nasca
This is a high-protein grain native to the Andes.
Quinoa
The Inca quarried or extracted the stone they used from this mountain range.
The Andes
Name of the Spanish conquistador of the Inca empire.
Francisco Pizarro
Some pre-Inca cultures had this in common.
They were gifted artisans (precious metals)
This pre-Inca culture showed great respect for the creatures of the natural world.
The Sicán
In A.D. 1200, the Inca were one of many small states occupying this valley.
The Urubamba Valley
Aqueducts built by the Incas resemble those built in this ancient European capital (once the capital of a great empire).
Rome
Capital of the Inca empire.
Cusco
The Inca didn't have a writing sytem, however, they used this system for collecting data and keeping records.
Quipu