INCREDIBLE THINGS ABOUT THE INCAS
Added on: 18th Oct 2015
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
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