The Inca Empire

1. The Inca Empire Presented byReagan Walpole

2. Place • Lived in the west • Would be in present day Peru, located in South America

3. Time • Lived in the 15th and part of 16th centuries • Lived 100 years as an empire (ended in 1532)

4. Land • Cities connected to miles of roads • Empire stretched for 2,500 miles • Farmed on mountains of ledges of flat land • Used trenches of water during the hot seasons

5. Houses • Lived in rectangular one room houses • Made of stone blocks and mud

6. Cities • Built 50 feet tall fortress Sacsahuman to protect Cuzo • Capital is Cuzo • Stone roads (connected to cities) Fact • One city was not destroyed by the Spanish called Machu Picchu

7. Culture • Carved metals (gold, silver) • Build temples to the sun god (thought it would help for good crops) • Spoke Quencha (don’t have written lanuage ) • Used strings called quips as letters

8. Food • Inca’s were farmers (agriculture) • Used sticks called lampas to help them farm • Farmed on ledges of flat land because they would farm on ledges on the mountains

9. Clothes • Made clothes from llama and alpaca wool

10. Messaging • Set up like a relay route (race) • Carried quips • Had quick communication

11. Conquests • Conquered other groups by sending conquests to destroy them • Gained up to 9 million citizens • Colonies' cultures were refined by Inca empire

12. Crime • Inca laws harsh • If you murdered, you are thrown off a cliff • If you stole, your hands were cut off • You could also be tied to a wall to freeze

13. Other stuff • The Inca kept so many people because they wanted to have enough people to guard it • In other words to keep it safe • The Spanish conquered the Inca in 1532 100 years after the Inca had become an Empire • Machu Picchu is behind the Andes mountains and was found accidently