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15 Cards in this Set
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Physical feature |
A land feature that has been made by nature |
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Latitude |
Distance North or south of the equator, measure in degrees of a circle |
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Human Feature |
A land feature that has been made by mankind |
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Longitude |
Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian |
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Sapa Inca |
Term for the leader of the Inca empire |
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Quechua |
Native American language spoken by the Inca |
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Quipo |
Recording devices used in the Inca Empire; a quipo usually consisted of colored thread or strings that recorded numeric and other values using knots |
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Inti |
sun god of the Inca. The Sapa Inca claimed to be a descendent of Inti |
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Cuzco |
Capital of the Inca, located in the Urubamba Valley of the Andes Mountains |
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Isthmus |
narrow body of land connecting a continent with a peninsula or another continent |
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Indigenous Peoples |
groups native to an area |
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Terraces |
A series of step-like areas built by the Incas along the sides of mountains |
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Irrigation |
Supplying land with water from popes, ditches, streams, or aqueducts; used by the Inca to water terraced fields |
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Coordinates |
Number that are used to locate a point on a map; latitude is always written first |
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Francisco Pizarro |
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan empire |
