The Great Inca Rebellion
TRUE or FALSE?
______1. The Incas were the “Romans of the New World.”
______2. Peru’s “ancient dead” are mostly buried in Lima’s city center, not
in thesurrounding shanty towns.
______3. The Incas would usually bury bodies in a “kneeling” position
facing the setting sun.
______4. Bodies found toward the top of the Puruchuco cemetery were
often buried “stretched out” on their side or back.
______5. People buried at the top of the cemetery had mostly died peaceful
deaths of natural causes.
______6. Inca weapons consisted of stone clubs, spears, and slings.
______7. The two biggest military advantages of the Spanish were their
horses and steel weapons.
______8. The Spanish arquebus was heavy, inaccurate, and practically
useless compared to later muskets.
______9. Historians know the exact dates of the disease epidemics that
killed Inca peoples.
_____ 10. The bone plug with a concave imprint suggests a musket ball.
_____ 11. Iron particles in bone areevidence for a gunshot wound.
_____ 12. When Pizarro arrived in Peru, the Inca Empire was strong, stable,
and had been in existence for many hundreds of years.
_____ 13. The chronicles of the Conquest exaggerate Spanish heroism and
largely ignore the help the Spanish got from the Indians.
_____ 14. Pizarro spared the life of the Inca king Atahualpa after receiving a
ransom of gold.
_____ 15. Armed Inca resistance to the Spanish, the Great Inca Rebellion,
began in 1533, just one year after Pizarro arrived in Peru.
_____ 16. The Spanish chronicles tell us that a handful of Pizarro’s
cavalrymendefeated theInca rebels attacking Lima.
_____ 17. All things considered, Mochito’s wounds were not that terrible.
_____ 18. The majority of people who died with Mochito died of “blunt
force trauma” (crushing injuries).
_____ 19. Most of the Inca rebels were killed, not by the Spanish, but by
other Indians.
_____ 20. The Spaniards who fought at Lima were protected by large
numbers of Indians fighting alongside them.
_____ 21. The help Pizarro got from his Indian allies was not really all that
important.
_____ 22. Pizarro’s Indian concubine did help him by asking her mother to
send an army.
_____ 23. At the siege of Lima, Inca women must have fought as warriors
alongside their men.
_____ 24. The three puncture wounds in Mochito’s head were probably
from a Spanish weapon like a lance.
_____ 25. The untraditional burials of the Puruchuco rebels still have no
logical explanation.
Bonus: Remembering the video, what is the evidence or proof that
the Spanish did promise their Indian allies independence?