USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Runners, or chaskis, carrying official messages; llama caravans moving corn, potatoes, and cotton; soldiers on military duty; and even the ruler-all traveled on the Inka Road. What is a chaski? Chaskis were short-distance relay runners who delivered official messages and sometimes small parcels throughout the empire.

Detailed explanation-2: -The chasquis (also chaskis) were the messengers of the Inca empire. Agile, highly trained and physically fit, they were in charge of carrying the quipus, messages and gifts, up to 240 km per day through the chasquis relay system.

Detailed explanation-3: -The chasquis carried messages knotted onto the string quipus which contained official records and other information along roads cut through the Andes Mountains, running at full speed for nine miles or more.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was important to be accurate. When messages were secret, runners carried the message in the form of a quipu-a series of knots and colored string. The quipu would be handed from runner to runner until it reached its destination. There, a special quipu reader would decipher the message.