The Incas

3. a typical drink in the Inca Cities made by spitting chewed fruit into warm water
5. The last refuge of the Inca Empire. When it fell to the Spanish in 1572, the Inca Empire was gone forever.
7. A runner who carried messages throughout the empire
11. The leader and emperor of the Inca Empire
13. Center of the Inca empire
15. One of the four officials in charge of a quadrant
17. The modern country where Cuzco and the center
18. The Inca name for their empire. It means the "Land of the Four Quarters".
20. The queen of the Inca Empire and primary wife of the Sapa Inca

1. The language spoken by the Inca.
2. The creator god of the Inca who made the Earth and was father to the Sun god Inti
4. The high priest of the Inca. Typically the brother or a close relative of the Sapa Inca
6. A spanish military leader and explorer
8. Francisco Pizarro was the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca.
9. the first to cultivate the potato in Peru
10. lived in pairs
12. The basic unit of the community
14. A powerful tribe in Peru that came to power around 900 AD and were conquered by the Inca around 1470 AD
16. A sacred object to the Inca inhabited by a spirit
19. The sun god and the most important god of the Inca