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Which was the main way Incas modified their environment to grow more food?

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Answer: They cut terraces on mountain sides to make more room for farmland.

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.

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