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What is the name of knotted strings that the Incas used for sending messages and keeping records, as an alternative to writing?
Quechua
Chullo
Chacra
Quipu
A quipu usually consisted of cotton or camelid fiber strings. The Inca people used them for collecting data and keeping records, monitoring tax obligations, properly collecting census records, calendrical information, and for military organization.
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added by mamboman75 May 7, 2019, 3:54 p.m.
What is the name of knotted strings that the Incas used for sending messages and keeping records, as an alternative to writing?
Quechua
Chullo
Chacra
Quipu
A quipu usually consisted of cotton or camelid fiber strings. The Inca people used them for collecting data and keeping records, monitoring tax obligations, properly collecting census records, calendrical information, and for military organization.
mamboman75
reach: rather globalanthropologyculturehistorymathematics
This is a correction, already accepted and applied to the original question.
added by mamboman75 May 7, 2019, 3:55 p.m.
What is the name of knotted strings that the Incas used for sending messages and keeping records, as an alternative to writing?
Quechua
Chullo
Chacra
Quipu
A quipu usually consisted of cotton or camelid fiber strings. The Inca people used them for collecting data and keeping records, monitoring tax obligations, properly collecting census records, calendrical information, and for military organization.
mamboman75
reach: rather globalanthropologyculturehistorymathematics

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