FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA
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The Inca prized poetry and music.
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Storytelling was considered sacred.
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The Inca lacked a system of writing.
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Written historical records were forbidden.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did Inca wise-men turn historical events into spoken stories? Inca lacked a system of writing. What lead to a prosperous culture in the Mississippi river-valley in AD 700. A shift to full-time farming.
Detailed explanation-2: -The absence of written Quechua may be down to the destruction of written records by the Spanish, which is what they did with many Maya records. Inca people may also have hidden these records.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The quipu was an Incan recording system based on tying knots into string. It allowed government officials to keep records of things like population and crop yields. This page also contains a description of the creation and uses of quipus.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Incas never developed a written language. However, their system of record keeping called Quipu is unique in human history. Inca recorded accounts with knotted string. Quipu means knot in Quechua, the language of the Incas.