USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -At its height the Inca Empire controlled 10–11 million people, covering lands from present-day Quito, Ecuador, all the way to Santiago, Chile. Strikingly, this civilization had no written language; it used knots tied into ropes as a system of writing called quipu.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Inca Empire (1438–1533) had its own spoken language, Quechua, which is still spoken by about a third of the Peruvian population. It is believed that the only “written” language of the Inca empire is a system of different knots tied in ropes attached to a longer cord. This system is called quipu or khipu.

Detailed explanation-3: -Because the Olmec did not have much writing beyond a handful of carved glyphs-symbols-that survived, we don’t know what name the Olmec people gave themselves. Appearing around 1600 BCE, the Olmec were among the first Mesoamerican complex societies, and their culture influenced many later civilizations, like the Maya.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aztec was pictographic and ideographic proto-writing, augmented by phonetic rebuses. It also contained syllabic signs and logograms. There was no alphabet, but puns also contributed to recording sounds of the Aztec language.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Inca, a technologically sophisticated culture that assembled the largest empire in the Western Hemisphere, have long been considered the only major Bronze Age civilization that failed to develop a system of writing-a puzzling shortcoming that nowadays is called the “Inca Paradox.”