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← HistoryWhich systemic risk increased throughout the Inca empire resulting from reliance on meticulously maintained quipu?
A)Wider variance in llama-herding taxation
B)Increased vulnerability to information corruption✓
C)Higher susceptibility to earthquake damage
D)Greater dependence on maize mono-cropping
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Increased information corruption becomes far more critical as communication reliance grows. A single error could alter key agricultural stock accounts because the quipu was how administrative data was stored; therefore errors propagated rather than staying isolated.
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