The Way Incas Worked

To store information about their culture. It was a system of cords where the cord color, way the cords were connected, placement of the knots on the cord, and type of knot all were part of their numerical recording.

Inca carried topsoil and gravel form more fertile lands up to hillsides so they could plant on land closer to where they lived. The government saved surplus food in a building in case of drought or flooding.

By joining together pipes and tying them with grass the cutting the pipes to different sizes.

Alpaca was used for fleece, food for the Incas, and companionship in the mountains. They were almost eliminated by the spanish who saw them as competitors but they were saved by Incas.

Potatoes were food and also used for art and in pottery. A unit of time the Incas went by was how long a potato took to cook. They became a main part of a person's diet until the famine in the 19th century.

The Inca's could join together stones with out mortar and they fit together perfectly.

No one knows for sure but most people think that they took smaller stones from the river and used them as hammers (since Inca's didn't have any metal tools). Then they would use a scribe to fit them together perfectly.

The Inca's had women take grass and tie the grass together to make rope. Then stone anchors would go on both sides of the canyon. A huge rope would be thrown from one side to the other and then another rope would follow. It took three days to create the footpath out of branches and make the handrails out of more woven grass.

Incas lived in a very hilly place filled with many canyons so rope bridges were needed for easy transportation to and from the empire.

The Inca's solar calendar had 365 days, twelve 30 day months, and 5 festival days. The Inca's also had a lunar calendar. Special towers called time makers used the positioning of the sun to mark the passage of the sun.

The Inca's removed shards of debris from a person's skull that had been crushed and allowed the brain to swell as part of the healing process. The first instance of open skull surgery was in the early 16th century in Machu Picchu

Most of the mummies of Inca rulers were destroyed by the Spaniards during their conquest. Children were mummified in hilltops.

Children were found in mountain tops in Peru and their lungs and organs still had blood on them because of the freezing temperature and the cold wind.