But the White House isnât pushing for such a treaty, in part because senior officials know it would never pass. Congress approved more than 1,500 treaties in the first 200 years of the U.S. governmentâs existence, a number so large that some White House officials might be tempted to test their luck with the Iran talks.
Updated April 14, 2017. Quipu is the Spanish form of the Inca (Quechua language) word khipu, a unique form of ancient communication and information storage used by the Inca Empire, their competition and their predecessors in South America. Scholars believe that quipus record information in the same way as a cuneiform tablet or a painted symbol on papyrus do.
The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cuzco in modern-day Peru. The official language of the empire was Quechua, although hundreds of local languages and dialects of Quechua were spoken. The Inca people began as a tribe in the Cuzco area around the 12th century.