INCREDIBLE THINGS ABOUT THE INCAS

ALTHOUGH THE INCAS WERE THE LARGEST PRE-COLOMBIAN

AMERICAN EMPIRE, THEY LACKED A WRITTEN LANGUAGE

FOR THIS REASON (LACK OF CENSUS RECORDS) ESTIMATES

OF THEIR SIZE HAS VARIED RANGING FROM 4 MILLION

PEOPLE TO NEARLY 40 MILLION

THE INCAS PRACTICED SOMETHING KNOWN AS SKULL

DEFORMATION. BASICALLY THEY WRAPPED CLOTH AROUND

THE HEADS OF THEIR KIDS SO THAT THEY WOULD ELONGATE.

SOME OF THEIR KINGS WOULD ONLY WEAR THEIR

CLOTHES ONCE AND THEN BURN THEM

IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THEY BUILT OVER 30,000 KM

OF ROAD, THEY NEVER DEVELOPED OR DISCOVERED

THE WHEEL

MAIL WAS DELIVERED ALONG THIS NETWORK OF ROADS

BY WAY OF MESSENGERS WHO WOULD HAND MAIL

OFF TO EACH OTHER USING A SORT OF RELAY SYSTEM

SINCE THERE WAS NO WRITING SYSTEM, THE MESSENGERS

HAD TO MEMORIZE THE MESSAGES!

THE INCAS INTRODUCED THE WORLD TO POTATOES

VIA THE SPANISH CONQUISTADORS

IN FACT, NEARLY A QUARTER OF EUROPE'S GROWTH

BETWEEN THE 1700S AND THE 1900S WAS ATTRIBUTED TO

THE INTRODUCTION OF THIS CROP