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Key Terms
Geography and Agriculture
Leaders
Inca Life
Art and Architecture
100
a system for ranking members of a group according to their importance.
What is a hierarchy?
100
the vast grassy plains of Argentina and Uruguay.
What is the Pampas?
100
the series of warrior-kings that led the Incas and built them into a great empire.
What is the Sapa Incas?
100
According to legend, the Incas were descendants from this god.
Who is Inti, the sun god?
100
The Incas building skills were so great, they were often compared to this ancient civilization.
Who are the Romans?
200
a record-keeping device made of knotted strings.
What is a quipu?
200
a high plain centered in Bolivia.
What is an Altiplano?
200
the greatest of the Sapa Incas who used military force and diplomacy to expand the Inca realm.
Who is Pachacuti?
200
a croup of related families that lived in the same location.
What are ayllu's?
200
the materials that the Incas built their buildings out of.
What are massive blocks of stone?
300
the management of government or business.
What is administration?
300
flat strips of level land cut into slopes to plant with crops.
What are terraces?
300
the last great Sapa Inca who died without arranging a successor.
Who is Huayna Capac?
300
they did special jobs, such as weabing cloth for Inca nobles.
Who are the "Chosen Women?"
300
One of the most extraordinary ruins in the world, not discovered until 1911.
What is Machu Picchu?
400
a population survey
What is a census?
400
the second-highest mountain range in the world, after the Himalaya Mountains in Asia.
What is the Andes?
400
the year that Pachacuti took power.
When is 1438?
400
property that was owned and managed by the government for public use.
What is communal property?
400
they stretched more than 15,000 miles across the empire, crossed deserts, mountains, and jungles.
What are Inca roads?
500
the management of communication and relationships between people or nations.
What is diplomacy?
500
The world's largest rain forest, which covers more than a third of the continent.
What is the Amazon?
500
The year that Huayna Capac took power?
When is 1493?
500
the three ranks of nobles.
Who are the Nobles by birth, Appointed Nobles, and the Non-Inca Chiefs?
500
the "sweat of the sun" and the "tears of the moon"
What is gold and silver?