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How do scholars think the Inca used the quipu?

a. As a writing system to record information about the ruler
b. as part of the costume of the priest when preforming rituals
c. as a weapon, similar to an axe, to enforce laws in the kingdom
d. as a record-keeping system to keep track of economic information.

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D. As a record-keeping system to keep track of economic information.

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The correct answer is:

D. as a record keeping system to keep track of economic information.

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Quipus, also known as khipus or talking knots, were registering devices historically used in a number of cultures and particularly in the region of Andean South America. The cords included numeric and other values encoded by knots in a base ten positional system. The only potential Incan example of encoding and recording information could have been cryptic knotted strings identified as khipu.


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