1. Warm-up #16 How did the Inca adapt to living in the mountains?
How did they expand their empire?

2. Inca Social Structure Reader
Read the handout:
Number paragraphs
Circle key words
Underline main ideas or answers.
Answer the questions in complete sentences.
Annotating is optional today.

3. Social Structure Pyramid
Top of 39

4. The Incas - Inca Life (Nobles)
Inca society broken into two groups – nobles and commoners
Three levels of nobles
By birth
Appointed – usually for service
Curacas – local non-Inca chiefs

5. The Incas - Inca Life (Commoners)
Commoners – divided by age and sex
Boys 9-16 tended flocks
Men raised crops & served in army
Men over 50 – light tasks like weave rope
Girls 9-12 gather plants for medicine and dyes
Girls 16 married or state service
Weave for nobles
Work in temples

6. The Incas - Inca Life (Community Life)
Commoners lived in communities called ayllu
The ayllu – a group of families that lived in same location
Shared land, food, animals, & resources
Lived in single room houses of stone or mud brick
One third of year devoted to festivals and ceremonies

7. The Incas – Inca Life (Land and Labor)
All Inca land was communal property – owned and managed by government
Land divided into three parts
Government
Priests and religion
Ayllu
Farmers cultivated for government and religion before could cultivate for ayllu
Commoners also have to provide a mita (labor tax)
Had to work for state for certain number of days during year
Could be military or construction of bridges and roads

8. The Incas - Inca Life (Trade)
Incas did not use money
Most communities produced necessary goods
Simple markets existed to exchange food for goods like wool
More of a barter system
With no money or property – difficult to accumulate wealth

9. Section 2 Quiz What were the three ranks of nobles?
How were commoners divided in Inca society?
What were commoners paid for their work?
How was the land owned and divided in the Inca Empire?
Why do you think the Inca rulers set up this system?
How did farmers and commoners support the Inca government?

10. Homework
Read Chapter 15.3
Copy and Answer Ch Assessment questions 1a, 1b, and 1c.
Write on the bottom half of pg 39.