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Warm-up. What is interesting about this picture? What would you like to know more about this photo? What would you ask someone if you could talk to them about the photo?. Geography of Americas.

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Warm-up

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  1. Warm-up What is interesting about this picture? What would you like to know more about this photo? What would you ask someone if you could talk to them about the photo?

  2. Geography of Americas Dense forest and fertile river valleys. Some areas had rocky cliffs and dry climates most of the year Mississippi River and the Amazon river are two of the largest rivers in the world Mountain regions are cold and lower river valleys are hot near the equator

  3. Incas • Established in South America • Settled in the Andes Mountains in the capital of Cuzco • At its height the empire included as many as 12 million people

  4. Incan Government • Inca emperor was called Sapa Inca and he was related to the sun god • The emperor owned all of the land in the empire and divided out • Under the emperor was the nobles: they oversaw the government officials • Census: official count of the people, used to keep track of people’s responsiblities • Farmers had to give part of their crops to government while women wove clothes • Empire took care of sick, elderly, and the poor

  5. No written language but spoke Quechua • Quipu: system of record keeping using strings that recorded births, deaths, and harvests • Runners carried the quipus across the land to different parts of the empire to keep track of records. • Army used roads and bridges built to travel from place to place along with the runners.

  6. Lasting Achievements Constructed thousands of miles of paved roads, massive walls, and mountaintop buildings; did all of this with stone hammers and bronze chisels. Terraces: built these to hold in the dirt on the steep slopes of the Andes Mountains Created aqueducts and channels to carry water to these terraces.

  7. Decline of Incan Empire Members of ruling family began fighting among themselves Workers rebelled against government Pizarro, a Spanish conquistador, captured and killed the emperor of the Incan Empire Spanish also brought diseases to the Incan land that killed them Incans tried to defeat Pizarro for years and were never able to regain control of their land

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