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Incan Civilization - Part 3
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Q1. Why is so little known about the early history of the Incas?
A. Aztecs took their books
B. There was a bad fire
C. They didn’t have a system of writing
D. Their history books were hidden in Machu Picchu
Q2. What disease did 2/3 of the Inca population die from?
A. Smallpox
B. Bubonic Plague
C. The Flu
D. Common Cold
Q3. Domed houses made from blocks of snow.
A. longhouse
B. igloo
Q4. What is this?
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A. Terrace farming
B. Chinampa
C. Causeway
D. Conquistadors
Q5. Smallpox was believed to have wiped out over half of the Inca population within 10 years of the Spanish invading.
A. True
B. False
Q6. What happened to the Inca when he died?
A. his body was thrown into a volcano
B. his body was mummified
C. his body was burned
Q7. The Maya were the only early civilization to develop a system of writing
A. True
B. False
Q8. What is one all civilizations share?
A. Destroyed by the spanish
B. they all ate the three sisters
C. They all had emperors
D. They each had one ruler
Q9. Artisans and Farmers were part of which level of the social hierarchy?
A. The Noble Classes
B. Commoners
C. Public Administrators
Q10. Organized in Ayllus.
A. Incan Society
B. American Ancestral Pueblo
Q11. A knotted and colored device used for counting by the Incas.
A. Huaca
B. quipa
C. papa
Q12. What did the Incans use to carry their goods on the roads?
A. sleds
B. carts
C. llamas
D. horses
Q13. The Incan Empire grew so much at one point its population was
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A. 100,000 people
B. 1million people
C. 12 million people
D. 120 million people
Q14. TheIncawerelargely polytheistic, which means
A. They believed in one God
B. They believed in multiple Gods
C. They did not worship any god
D. They believed in the sanctity of the government above all else
Q15. Which was the mound-building civilization?
A. Mississippians
B. Mayans
C. Incans
D. Aztecs
Q16. The Inca were expert builders who
A. used wagons to move the supplies
B. used horses to pull stones up mountains
C. used boats to move stones across the empire
D. cut stone by hand and built things without mortar
Q17. Why was the ransom of gold and silver not enough for the Spanish?
A. they needed it for the king
B. if the Incas could easily fill a jail cell, they must have more
C. they would be killed if they did not return to Spain with more
D. there was not enough for them to share
Q18. How did the Inca connect their capital to other cities in their territory?
A. building 200 cities along rivers
B. Dams
C. 14,000 miles of paved road
Q19. What is the type of farming used in the rainforest where the vegetation was cut away then started on fire to clear the land for planting crops?
A. slash and burn
B. terraced farming
C. floating gardens
D. xeriscaping
Q20. Studying an object to find magic sign from the gods
A. Virachocha
B. Inti
C. Divining
D. Huaca
Q21. How did the Incas record their history?
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A. Youtube
B. Hieroglyphics
C. Secret codes that we still haven’t figured out
D. Stories passed from father to son
Q22. The Aztec’s capital city was
A. Tenochtitlan
B. Cuzco
C. Aztec
D. Incan
Q23. Today, Mayan people can be found all over Southern Mexico. So why did so many people think that the Mayans disappeared?
A. Most Mayan tribes were slaughtered when the Aztecs took over.
B. The Mayan languages and traditions have disappeared but not the Mayan people.
C. The Mayaleft their cities due to overpopulation, famine and disease
D. Mayan cities have been destroyed by climate change and wars.
Q24. There was a palace in each Incas city. Whostayed there?
A. city mayor
B. priests
C. ruling Inca when visiting
D. soldiers
Q25. The best preserved Incan city that was rediscovered in 1911.
A. Aqueducts
B. Huacas
C. Machu Picchu
D. Cusco
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