How the Ancient Inca moved 50-80Ton stone blocks is a total mystery.
— Jimmy Corsetti (@BrightInsight6) May 8, 2024
Quarried 2+miles away at the top of a high Mountain, carried across a River, a Valley, and brought to the top of a steep hill.
They somehow accomplished all this without the invention of the wheel! 🤯
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Um it's actually called cocaine and that is racist:
The mayo scientists hate seeing native scholars do their thang:
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THEY DIDN'T HAVE A WRITTEN LANGUAGE HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLY CUT OR MOVE ROCKS
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Didn't they use some absurd alternative method of storing information that was essentially the same as written language but not on paper?
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Knots. They tied fricking knots and had some marathon neighbor go run the cord to the next town over until it got to the recipient. Kinda wild
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Lol yeah, the had chasquis who were a service of young, physically fit men, who would run messages and packages down the road system by sprinting 1.6 miles and then changing over with a new runner.
They say they could deliver things up to about 200mi in a day
They could also carry verbal messages
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World's most trusting game of telephone. No thanks
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Quipu, they were like big butt bundles of knots that could record phonological and numeric data. They've been discovered with the Caral Supe civilization, dating from 3000 BC and could be older considering that textiles rot.
However, nobody alive know exactly how they did so. But it was a code dependent on the placement and direction of the knots
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idk, the guy just highlighted no written language as one of the reasons they couldn't cut/move rocks.
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