Sentences with quipu
qui·pu
Q q - We now know the quipu for just what it was in prehistoric times… simply an instrument for recording numbers.
- The Inca, who had no written language, used the quipu - a device made of a series of strings with colored knots - to record census findings and tallies of animal herds and other resources.
- Remember that the Incas had no written records and so the quipu played a major role in the administration of the Inca empire since it allowed numerical information to be kept.
- The quipus of the ancient Incas of Peru encoded a wide range of data about people, land, and crops for the government bureaucracy.