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What Is Quipu: The Talking Knots?

Quipu is also known as talking knots which are essentially recording devices fashioned in the form of strings that have been historically used throughout different cultures in the region of Andean South America. This tool was pretty common among Incan people. The Inca Empire which is also known as the “Incan Empire”, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. Their administrative and political structure is considered to have been the most developed at that time by most scholars and this was before the Columbus' arrival. Quipu was the ancient accounting tool that has been used by Incan people throughout centuries for book keeping purposes. The Inca people also used them for other purposes like keeping records, collecting data, monitoring tax obligations, calendrical information, properly collecting census records, and for military organization as well. This was the unique history of the old which scientist are still interested in to go deep down bec