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Inca Empire Vocabulary Study
Know these words for quizzes and tests on the Inca Empire in chapter 12.
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| Pachacuti | The Incan ruler who came to power in 1438 and greatly expanded the empire |
| chasqui | Term for Incan runner and message carrier |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer whose troops conquered the Inca |
quipu,  | A counting tool made from a cord with knotted strings |
| Inca | An empire first established sometime before 1200 in the central Andes Mountain region |
| Andes Mountains | A mountain range extending over 4,000 miles through the modern nations of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. |
Cuzco,  | A word meaning "center" or "navel," this was the capital city of the Inca |
| Quechua | The language of the Inca |
| terrace farming | A practice where flat surfaces are cut into steep slopes to get the most of difficult terrain,  |
| Atahualpa | The ruler of the Inca Empire at the time they were conquered by the Spaniards |
| Machu Picchu | An Incan mountain settlement; it never had a population over about 1000 people,  |
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