Wednesday 13 January 2016

The Incas: quipu

The Inca empire existed in 1532. It spread over a vast area in South America. They have developed a method of recording number information which did not require writing. It involved knots in strings called quipu. The quipu was not a calculator but rather a way to record, for example: numbers of cows, or population.

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