Whenever he conquered a new group of people and forced them to become Inca, Atahualpa ordered that the people’s quipucamayocs be killed and ordered that their khipus be burned. He wanted to control the narrative. He wanted history to belong to him. He wanted to erase their memories. He really wanted them gone. There, working, paying taxes, but gone. This was not the last time quipucamayocs were met with violence by a power-hungry regime. When the Spanish invaded, they burned as many khipus as they wanted to and killed the quipucamayocs, too.
