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 empire proved relatively short-lived however: by 1533, Atahualpa, the last Sapa Inca (emperor) of the Inca Empire, was killed on the orders of the conquistador Francisco Pizarro, marking the beginning of Spanish rule. The last Inca stronghold, the Neo-Inca State in Vilcabamba was conquered by the Spanish in 1572.