Conquistadors: The Conquest of the Incas True or False?
______1. There are no traces left today of the Inca Royal Road.
______2. The Inca Empire stretched 3,000 miles from Ecuador to Chile.
______3. As Pizarro advanced, native people were told not to feedhim.
______4. Potatoes were the staple (basic) food of the Inca peoples.
______5. The Spaniards thought the Inca religion was “devil worship” and
used this belief to justify a war of aggression.
______6. Pizarro had about 620 horseman and 1,200 foot soldiers.
______7. At Cajamarca the Spanish were surprised to see so few camp fires
on the Incaside.
______8. When the Spaniards entered Cajamarca, they found a town full of
Indians.
______9. An Inca spy reported that the Spaniards could not be gods because
they got tired, sickened, and even died.
_____ 10. When Atahualpa, the Inca King, threw a bible down, the Indians
suddenly attacked the Spanish.
_____ 11. Atahualpa, taken prisoner, offered to fill a room with goldif the
Spanish wouldset him free.
_____ 12. When the gold had been collected, the Spanish tried and executed
Atahualpa.
_____ 13. Andean people still speak of how Atahualpa was “killed like a
llama.”
_____ 14. Pizarro marched to the Inca capital at Cuzco and captured it.
_____ 15. Pizarro appointed Atahualpa’s half brother Manco as Inca king.
_____ 16. The women of the Inca court abused the Spanish and falsely
accused Pizarro.
_____ 17. Leading Incas forced an unwilling Manco to plan an attack on
the Spanish.
_____ 18. The Spanish easily defeated and took prisoner the Inca rebels at
Cuzco.
_____ 19. At Ollantaytambo, the Spanish were defeated for the first time
in a pitched battle.
_____ 20. Manco told the people he left behind to accept the gods of the
Spanish in public and even worship them at home in private.
_____ 21. Gonzalo Pizarro ambushed Manco’s forces by hiding on aridge
and rolling boulders down on them.
_____22. When Gonzalo reached the “lost city of the Incas,” Manco had
already disappeared into the jungle.
_____ 23. Gonzalo Pizarro had Manco’s wife shot with arrows and floated
her body down a river in a basket.
_____ 24. Old Francisco Pizarro was killed by one of his own sons.
_____ 25.At his new capital of Vitcos, Manco held court for 7 years.
_____26.Manco was killed by a Spaniard who stabbed him in the back.
_____ 27. Manco was the one Inca who had offered the hope of long-term
resistance to the Spanish.
_____ 28.When the Spanish destroyed the Inca Empire, they also destroyed
the culture and beliefs of the Inca people.
_____ 29. Every year Andean peoples revere ancestral spirits on the glaciers
of the Sacred Mountains.
_____ 30. According to Michael Wood, “The Conquest is over.”