Land of Vital Blood: Pre-Columbian America
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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What Are Kepoos?
The inca did not have writing in the same sense that we're generally used to talking about, ok? They didn't create written inscriptions in stone, ora or ters on paper or parchment. However, they clearly needed a very sophisticated record keeping system for managing their empire. And it seems that they did that through what are called pos, which are series of knotted strings. We don't fully know how these keepoos worked. No cant what they were recording or how.
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