Key Words and Definitions

Question 1

tinku

Answer 1

place of convergence

Question 2

pacarina

Answer 2

place of origin and links to important ancestors

Question 2

ayllu

Answer 2

the basic organizational unit of Andean farming and herding communities

Question 2

chullpa

Answer 2

houses of the dead

Question 3

ayni

Answer 3

a traditional form of delayed exchange of labor and/or goods between farm families

Question 3

minka

Answer 3

communal labor of multiple farm families organized by a sponsor for construction of public works or farming community lands supporting the infrastructure, often paid for by the sponsor through feasting and drinking

Question 3

huacas

Answer 3

shrines, deities

Question 3

mit’a

Answer 3

an advanced form of labor organization, pay taxes through labor instead of through good or money

Question 4

qoches and mahamaes

Answer 4

sunken gardens

Question 5

puquios

Answer 5

filtration galleries

Question 6

bofedales

Answer 6

large, high altitude spring-fed wetlands or bog (artificial pastures)

Question 7

illapa or llibiac

Answer 7

the lighting (term used in describing origin)

Question 8

mazcca paycha

Answer 8

“headband of the state” which Inca rulers wore over their forehead

Question 9

mallqui

Answer 9

deceased Inca’s embalmed body

Question 10

pururaucas

Answer 10

rocks that were divinely appointed warriors that had metamorphosed into stone after helping Inca Pachacuti defeat the Chancas

Question 11

Inti Raimi

Answer 11

“festival of the Sun”

Question 12

aravis

Answer 12

“songs about the deeds of others or about the memory of absent loved ones, or about love”

Question 13

hayllis

Answer 13

songs of rejoicing in war or about fields which have been well finished and conquered”

Question 14

Capac Raimi

Answer 14

“the great festival”

Question 15

kurakas

Answer 15

chiefs

Question 16

mitmaq

Answer 16

ethnic “outsiders”

Question 17

yanaconas

Answer 17

individuals who left the ayllu society to become dependent retainers of the Europeans

Question 18

tambo

Answer 18

inn

Question 19

pachakuti

Answer 19

“the world upside down”

Question 20

khipu

Answer 20

recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South Americ