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National Geographic : 1964 Feb
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than the llama, and no written language, yet freedom. They engineered and built 10,000 who established one of the great civilizations miles of roads through the Andes, with sus and empires of all time.* Often compared to pension bridges and tunnels, linking every the Romans, the Incas subjugated numerous part of the empire. tribes in what is now Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Fast relay runners, called chasquis, were Colombia, Chile, and Argentina. Their he- stationed every one and a half miles; by this gemony extended more than 2,500 miles and system they could cover 150 miles a day, de encompassed 380,000 square miles. livering messages in the form of knotted They established a system of social security *See "Peru, Homeland of the Warlike Inca," by Kip and abolished both private property and Ross, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, October, 1950. 256
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