When the Spanish first took over the Incan Empire, they realized that the knotted strings they used for record-keeping were more accurate than their own systems. And that the quipu were extremely important for the prestige and honor of each village. They didn’t care for either fact and declared quipu satanic in 1583, burning every example they could find. At the time, quipu were extremely common, with every village in the empire using them. Today, only around 750 examples remain.
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