USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Llamas were the Incas’ most important domestic animal, providing food, clothing and acting as beasts of burden. They were also often sacrificed in large numbers to the gods.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Inca had two main uses of transportation on the roads: the chasqui (runners) for relaying information (through the quipus) and lightweight valuables throughout the empire and llamas caravans for transporting goods. Llamas were used as pack animals in large flocks.

Detailed explanation-3: -They developed resilient breeds of crops such as potatoes, quinoa and corn. They built cisterns and irrigation canals that snaked and angled down and around the mountains. And they cut terraces into the hillsides, progressively steeper, from the valleys up the slopes.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Inca diet, for ordinary people, was largely vegetarian as meat-camelid, duck, guinea-pig, and wild game such as deer and the vizcacha rodent-was so valuable as to be reserved only for special occasions. More common was freeze-dried meat (ch’arki), which was a popular food when travelling.

Detailed explanation-5: -The most common sources of meat were guinea pigs and llamas, and dried fish was common.