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The Incas did not have writing. They communicated by a knots on a rope which messengers carried to the recipient of the message. The incas had a network of trails by whicha series of runners used to travel like a"pony express". That's how they got fresh fish to the interior capital at Cuzco. It actually was a very fast system.(I lived in Peru for 10 years)

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Since the Inca lacked a writing system they?

The Inca had no writing system. Instead, they kept records using a system of knotted strings called the quipu. The lack of a fully developed writing system, however, did not prevent the Inca from attaining a high level of cultural achievement.


Did the Maya the Aztec or the Inca have a writing system?

I know the Inca did not have a writing system, but they did have a speaking language/system. I do not know about the Mayas and the Aztecs. I am researching them.


Where was the Inca empire located?

The Inca empire was located in Peru. Sources: School and the South Park episode "Pandemic 2: The Startling". Yes, the episode was accurate :o)


The rise and fall of the Inca empires?

We do not have first-hand information from the Inca people about the beginnings of their empire because the Inca did not have a written language. People who study the Inca civilization have pieced together information from different sources. They believe that the Inca people started living in the Cuzco Valley in A.D. 1100. By the early 1400s, the Inca empire still reached only 20 miles beyond the capital city of Cuzco. Rulers Viracocha Inca, and later his son, Pachacuti Inca, increased the size of the Inca empire through conquest. From the 1400s to the early 1500s, the empire grew and developed. After a civil war in the Inca empire, the triumphant ruler Atahualpa agreed to meet with a Spanish explorer named Francisco Pizarro. This was in the year 1532. Instead of the peaceful meeting Atahualpa expected, the Spaniards took him captive. Atahualpa tried to meet the Spaniards' demands for silver and gold, but he was killed in 1533. The Inca army fought the Spaniards but lost the war in 1536. Inca warriors continued to fight the Spaniards. When the last Inca leader was killed in 1572, the Inca empire was officially over. Like the Aztecs, many inhabitants of the Inca empire died as a result of the diseases the explorers unknowingly brought with them. The Spaniards forced the Inca to convert to Christianity.


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