Exploring Inca Quipu and Numerical Representation

The video explores the Inca civilization, focusing on their unique quipu system for recording numbers using knots on strings. Despite lacking a writing system and the wheel, the Incas developed an efficient method for arithmetic, which was deciphered by Leslie Leland Locke in 1912. The quipu served as a vital tool for the Inca Empire's bureaucracy, and its potential as a writing system remains a mystery. The video concludes with resources for further exploration.

1. What was the main method used by the Inca to record numbers?

• Writing on paper

• Knots and strings

• Carvings

• Drawing on walls

Which important item did the Incas NOT have, unlike other bronze age civilizations?

What was the job of the person who discovered how quipus worked?

What is something we are not sure about quipus? Why don't we know more about them?