The Incas
Across
- 6. Since the Incas did not have currency, this is how they paid their taxes.
- 10. The Incan emperor relied on these to manage the empire.
- 11. This person was usual a close relative of the Sapa Inca and presided over the Sun Temple in Cuzco.
- 12. The most important god to the Incas as they believed their emperor was descended from this god and it was the god of agriculture.
- 13. America The Inca society developed on this continent.
- 15. The primary wife of the emperor.
- 16. This is what the Incan emperor was called.
- 18. the objects and sacred places where spirits dwelled.
- 19. The capital of the Incan Empire.
- 23. Inca priests practiced _____________, the art of predicting the future.
- 24. The Inca usually sent one of these to a tribe before declaring war on it.
- 26. Children from commoner families did not have an education, but the sons of nobles had these.
- 27. All boys received this when they were about fifteen.
- 28. This is what the highest ranking nobles were called.
- 29. This group of people influenced the Incas. They passed artistic traditions down to them and built good roads and messenger systems.
- 30. The Inca society developed in these mountains.
Down
- 1. The name for Incan clans.
- 2. In the Inca class structure, this group was below the emperor.
- 3. The supreme god of the Incas, the creator of the world.
- 4. A group of people that influence the Incas. They built cities, dug irrigation canals, and developed special classes of workers.
- 5. this was the lowest group in Incan society.
- 7. Like the Mayas and Aztecs, the Incas offered these to the gods.
- 8. The Inca society developed in this country.
- 9. These women were selected as girls to live in convents and eventually serve in temples, as teachers, become the wives of high ranking nobles or to become sacrifices.
- 14. Conquered people had to adopt these to become part of the Incan Empire.
- 17. This is what the early history of the Incas is cloaked in.
- 19. These were the local leaders of people that the Incas conquered.
- 20. Knots tied to help chasqui remember messages.
- 21. A public duty tax that men had to pay.
- 22. This many people may have lived under Incan rule.
- 25. Couples exchanged these when they got married.