Quipus: an accounting/writing system.

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Peruvian_Chud

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2 months ago#27414
The quipus (khipu, meaning "knot") were the sophisticated record-keeping system of the Inca Empire. Was it writing or just accounting? For years we were told that quipus were only used to count potatoes and corn. But today, science says they could be a complex writing system that we can't yet fully decipher.

Today we know that the twisting pattern of the threads, their color, the distance between the cords tied to the main string, the location, shape, and direction of the knots, as well as the number of knots, were variables that allowed for data recording. In the quipus, no detail was accidental; everything contained information. Undoubtedly, they constituted a complex system that allowed for the easy storage of all kinds of data: administrative (demographic censuses, tax collection), calendrical, genealogical, historical, and religious.


If it weren't for the Spaniards who considered this accounting/writing system as "pagan", we would probably know more about it.
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2 months ago#27416
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Peruvian_Chud

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2 months ago#28802
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2 months ago#28820
Funny way of counting stuff
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2 months ago#29056
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Garzon

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2 months ago#29067
Machu Pichu ooga booga magic
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MenstrualCykill

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2 months ago#29070
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Wrong tribe
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2 months ago#29075
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Wrong tribe
still pagan. I mean I guesssss they were monistic pantheists but uhhh they did pagan rituals and worshipped the sun so in my heart they were pagans
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2 months ago#29137
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Peruvian_Chud

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2 months ago#29145
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Machu Pichu ooga booga magic
The Germanic tribes also said ooga booga, right?
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The Germanic tribes also said ooga booga, right?
saying ooga booga is aryan thoughbeit
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2 months ago#29163
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The Germanic tribes also said ooga booga, right?
they did.
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2 months ago#29176
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The Germanic tribes also said ooga booga, right?
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bro, the Incas even had their own monarchy.
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2 months ago#29185
Peruvian_Chudunverified
bro, the Incas even had their own monarchy.
everybaldi except pacific nation backward niggers figured out monarchy on their own. I'll give you that never inventing the wheel just because you didn't need it and running around the Andes instead is aryan
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Peruvian_Chud

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2 months ago#29189
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Funny way of counting stuff
True, although during the conquest there was some development on this topic to attract the natives to Catholicism.
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