Ziggurat · describe its religious role and setting

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25This people built the city of Machu Picchu.RECALL
The Inca.
The fifteenth-century site sits high in the Andes and was built from precisely cut stone.
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26Inca quipu · its record-keeping functionRECALL
Recording information with knotted cords.
Colour, position, and knot types could encode numerical and administrative information.
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27Rosetta Stone · purpose of presenting a decree in multiple scriptsRECALL
To present the same decree to different readers.
Its Greek, Demotic, and hieroglyphic texts later helped scholars decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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