The Incas

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