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| The Inca recorded numbers and perhaps other kinds of information on the knotted strings of a quipu. Inca administrators used quipus to keep accounts of items owned and in storage within their districts, such as agricultural products and livestock. Unlike pre-Columbian civilizations of Mesoamerica such as the Maya and Aztec, the Inca had no form of true writing. | ||||||
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| Inca Empire; Native Americans of Middle and South America | ||||||
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