Yachaywasi - Library replacement
+3
science (+1 from library)
+2
culture
+1
gold for every mountain in 3 tile radius of city
1
scientist specialist slot
reduces illiteracy slightly
Yachaywasi were the centres of learning in the Incan empire, though they were restricted to only the highest nobility, the elderly and the youth of conquered nobles. Incan leaders recognized the value in educating the next generation of vassals in the Incan language and customs as a means of pacifying and legitimizing their rule.
Education was conducted by the scholar-philosophers, or
amawtakuna, who would teach legends, morals, and religion, but also tactics, exercises and of course, the use of the khipu record-keeping system. Youths began their education at 13 and could expect to graduate from their formal education by the age of 19, whereupon they were given a special ceremonial undergarment as a 'diploma' of sorts.
Highborn boys and Men above the age of 50 were brought into these schools to become literate in the use of khipu, the Incan system of record keeping which used knots tied on chains of textile strings. The system was primarily numerical, used for taking stock of troops, food stocks, and taxation. Recent evidence suggests, however, that Khipu may have slowly been developping into a unique written language by the time the Spanish made contact with the Inca, and banned to use of Khipu system. Modern scholars are only beginning to understand the meaning found within the few hundred Khipu that remain.
quipu,
Inca Education