| welfare state | | record-keeping device made of knotted strings |
| efficient | | examine carefully to find out something or to check conditions |
| quipu | | management of communication and relationships between people and nations |
| inspect | | system for ranking members of a group based on their importance |
| huayna capac | | population survey |
| breed | | easily noticed |
| pachacuti | | group of people or things with similar qualities |
| mita | | to provide enough food or water; to make something continue |
| pampas | | labor tax |
| category | | flat strips of level land |
| diplomacy | | vast grassy plains of argentina and uruguay |
| terraces | | religious teachings or practices |
| ayllu | | the management of a government or business |
| communal property | | ruler in 1493 who lead the empire in peace died in 1525 |
| altiplano | | to raise animals or plants to be useful to humans |
| hierarchy | | ruler in 1438 who expanded the empire greatly |
| census | | something that works well |
| theology | | owned an managed by the government for public use |
| administration | | a government that takes responsibility for the well-being of its citizens |
| evident | | high plain centered bolivia |
| sustain | | group of related families that lived in the same location |