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Background

Essential Question

Visual Summary

Where did the Inca live and how did they build there?

Agents, our reports about the Inca are nearly impossible to believe. For example, the system says that they built a giant empire on top of the largest mountains in the west– that can’t be right. There must be some major Fractures here. Why would someone be trying to change this specific point in history?

The Inca

Mission Summary: Latin America

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The Inca had no writing of any kind. Instead they used knots tied into ropes called quipus to communicate over long distances.

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Conquest

Episode 5:

The Inca

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Geography

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Built on the Andes Mountains near Lake Titicaca in South America.

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Technology

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Adaptations

Cut the mountains into stairs using terrace farming in order to grow crops.

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Inca Roads

Roads

Allowed them to send messages quickly across the huge empire.

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Built bridges out of grass to cross the mountains.

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Brain

Snack

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What would you do?

You have angered a llama.

Apparently he didn’t like when you spit at him. Now he is chasing you with a crazy look in his eyes. You run until you reach the edge of a cliff. At the edge of the cliff is an old Inca rope bridge that looks like the one shown here. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

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Stonework

Build incredibly strong buildings out of stone with no mortar or cement.

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Society

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Focused on the Sun god Inti. Believed your body went on after death.

Religion

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Kept their ancestors around as mummies to guide them.

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Government

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Civil War�

The Inca split between two brothers leading to a civil war that weakened them.

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Atahualpa

Became emperor in 1532 and grew the empire to its largest size. He was considered a living god.