1. 7 th Period 5/20/14  Read pages 196-201 of the textbook and complete Lesson 3: The Inca true/false handout  Additional handout is homework – sum/rev  When you have completed your assignment you may get your assigned laptop

2. Early People of South America LESSON 3: THE INCA

3. A Vast Empire  Humans began living throughout South America at least 11,000 years ago  Some built villages that became large cities and empires  The Inca Empire was the largest in the Americas and developed in the Andes Mountains

4. Machu Picchu  Machu Picchu – a mountaintop city in the Incan Empire believed to be a religious center

5. Inca Contributions  Preserved their dead using mummification  Created sundials to help with planting and harvesting crops  Built roads and suspension bridges

6. The Inca Legacy  Inca Empire lasted less than 100 years  Civil War broke out 1527 making the empire weak  1532 Francisco Pizarro, a Spanish conquistador, defeated the Incan army and in 1572 the last Incan emperor was killed and the empire defeated