Immediately upon setting foot in the Andes, the Spanish set out to compile a history of the Inca Empire and of the Andean region. From the very beginning, they were interested in studying the language, the clothing, the flora, the fauna. They wanted to document everything. It was this initial impulse to document the world that they were themselves destroying that made my blood boil. So I rooted against the khipu codebreakers. I hoped that they would never unlock the secrets of the khipu. I hoped that for them, it remained an unfulfilled longing. There were consequences to empire.
