The Incas

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Across
  1. 3. a typical drink in the Inca Cities made by spitting chewed fruit into warm water
  2. 5. The last refuge of the Inca Empire. When it fell to the Spanish in 1572, the Inca Empire was gone forever.
  3. 7. A runner who carried messages throughout the empire
  4. 11. The leader and emperor of the Inca Empire
  5. 13. Center of the Inca empire
  6. 15. One of the four officials in charge of a quadrant
  7. 17. The modern country where Cuzco and the center
  8. 18. The Inca name for their empire. It means the "Land of the Four Quarters".
  9. 20. The queen of the Inca Empire and primary wife of the Sapa Inca
Down
  1. 1. The language spoken by the Inca.
  2. 2. The creator god of the Inca who made the Earth and was father to the Sun god Inti
  3. 4. The high priest of the Inca. Typically the brother or a close relative of the Sapa Inca
  4. 6. A spanish military leader and explorer
  5. 8. Francisco Pizarro was the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca.
  6. 9. the first to cultivate the potato in Peru
  7. 10. lived in pairs
  8. 12. The basic unit of the community
  9. 14. A powerful tribe in Peru that came to power around 900 AD and were conquered by the Inca around 1470 AD
  10. 16. A sacred object to the Inca inhabited by a spirit
  11. 19. The sun god and the most important god of the Inca