Chasqui relay messengers
Chasquis (correo de relevos inca)
- Date
- c. 1450 · confidence medium
- Place
- Cusco, Peru
- Credited to
- Inca Empire
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Runners stationed every few kilometres who relayed oral messages and quipus, covering up to 240 km a day. They kept the empire connected along the length of the Andes.
What it led to
- the centralised government of a state of more than 10 million people
- the transport of fresh fish from the coast to Cusco