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- 1. Multiple Choice
Here are two facts about the Inca Empire:
• It stretched about 2,500 miles.
• It did not have a written language.
These facts explain why the Incas
had legends about their origin
conquered many other groups
used runners to carry messages
built their capital in the mountains
- 2. Multiple Choice
A set of strings tied into knots, called a quipu, was an aid for
finding the best route
remembering information
catching fish in the river
understanding the calendar
- 3. Multiple Choice
Much of the land that was once the Inca Empire is in which countries today?
Peru and Ecuador
Brazil and Paraguay
Mexico and Guatemala
Colombia and Venezuela
- 4. Multiple Choice
How did the Incas develop the advances listed below?
• well-planned cities
• elaborate irrigation methods
learned them from the Spanish
learned them from the nobles
learned them from the Moches and Chimus
created them as original inventions
- 5. Multiple Choice
What did the Incas create to hold their empire together?
a network of roads
a central market
a school for sons of commoners
a flock of trained pigeons
- 6. Multiple Choice
What belongs in bottom row of this chart?
Capac Incas - relatives to the Sapa Inca
Hahua Incas - nobles by privilege
Curacas -
winners of major battles
favorites chosen by the royal wives
local leaders of conquered people
scholars who did well in school
- 7. Multiple Choice
The most important Incan food crop was unknown to the Mayas or Aztecs. This Incan crop was
Corn
Potatoes
Squash
Peppers
- 8. Multiple Choice
Two people who belonged to the same ayllu might often
obey different leaders
live in different regions
work at different tasks
speak different languages.
- 9. Multiple Choice
When a Chosen Woman was 8-10 years old, she would most likely be
studying in a convent
married to a commoner
living with her family
.helping to govern a village
- 10. Multiple Choice
After the Incas conquered a new area, why were local leaders and their sons brought to Cuzco?
A.to get sacred objects back
to tell the emperor their concerns
to be sacrificed to the sun god
to learn Incan law and language
- 11. Multiple Choice
What did the Sapa Inca typically do after a rebellion by a conquered tribe?
remove the local leader and possibly kill him
return sacred objects
take families as slaves
set the area free
- 12. Multiple Choice
The Inca Empire reached its peak in the same period as which group on the timeline below?
Olmec
Classic Maya
Toltec
Aztec Empire
- 13. Multiple Choice
Who got the remaining third of an ayllu’s crops?
conquered armies
needy neighbors
the Sapa Inca
Local Leader
- 14. Multiple Choice
How did the Incas manage to get such a large empire?
They bought the land around them
They made a deal with tribes to either better their lives or go to battle
Just stole the land from others
They just showed up and started building
- 15. Multiple Choice
How did the Incas manage such a remote empire?
They had a pony express
They used pigeons to deliver things
People could just do whatever in their own area of the empire
They used the road system and messengers
- 16. Multiple Choice
Around 1200 C.E., the Incas first settled their capital city, which they called
Yupanqui
Chancas.
Pachacuti.
Cuzco.
- 17. Multiple Choice
How did the government help those who were in need?
It kept distributing food to those who did not have enough.
It required commoners to work as caretakers of the elderly.
It set up hospitals to provide medical care for the sick
It provided road-building jobs to the unemployed.
- 18. Multiple Choice
Families in the Inca Empire belonged to larger clans called
quipus.
chasquis.
ayllus.
oracles.
- 19. Multiple Choice
The most important god to the Incas was
Viracocha, the creator of the world.
Inti, the sun god and god of agriculture.
Mama Cocha, the goddess of the sea.
Illapu, the weather god and rain giver.
- 20. Multiple Choice
What happened when a tribe became part of the Inca Empire?
The men of the tribe were only allowed to marry Inca women.
The tribe had to abandon its own religion and only worship Incan gods.
The tribe had to adopt the ways of the Incas
The children of the tribe were taken away to be raised by Incans.
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