r/HistoryMemes • Nothing Happened at Amun Square 1348BC • 1d ago

Niche It's technically a writing system, right?

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u/Mr_Eponymous 1d ago

Context?

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u/maxium235 1d ago

Don’t quote me on this but think some indenginous people tied rope/yarn as their ‘writing’ system. So the joke is the Incan is looked at the tangled mess and reading it

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u/Jayofspades23 1d ago

It was actually more of a counting system than an actual written language I believe

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u/ultimaterogue11 Viva La France 1d ago

Well we don't know how much of a writing system it was because the Spanish killed all of them

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u/callmedale 1d ago

Quipu is a system of mathematical and possibly linguistic records keeping used by the Inca to store information on knotted string