EDIT: Damn,I just thought now that "How To Spread The Spud" would have been a alot more catchier title.
As in my efforts to think of different scenarios for the rise of a civilization in the Williamette Valley as apart of my https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=137328 Land of Salmon and Totems TL I have found that only two sources for starting a major agricultural plot could be undertaken in analogue to other cultural and civilization trends. These being the Camas and the Potato.
Though the Camas I am not too sure could be 'Cultivated', generally because I am sketchy of its nutritional capabilities, no major civilizations grew around Camas before, and it was mainly the foodstuffs of the nomadic Plateau Indians east of the Pacific North West. Therefore we have the Potato that revolutionizing spud to turn to.
Now I have thought of two ways already.
One which would benefit for my TL and thoughts on generally making agricultral civilizations anywhere along the Pacific Coast would be that the Potato from its homeisland in the southern Andes (though their are at least three native potato species in Mexico and the Texas area: Solanum fendleri, Solanum bulbocastanum , and another but I have not seen any use of these for eating persay and I want to focus on this for the famous potato) or later when it spreads throughout the Andes for it to fall into the ocean andlet currents takeit northward, or a miratory bird eats a potato and heads northward and plants the seeds so to speak somewhere up north.
The other being old Tupac Inca instead of heading out to sea heads up the Pacific Coastline (which actually could result in the Mesoamerican and Andes civilizations meet). Bringing the plant and from their it spreads on its own.
Though the latter scenario is too late for my ideal POD, and I feel the former is possible but I would like any other ideas.
Though a interesting last idea would be oh say...sometime during the 600s or 700s when in OTL we see a migration of peoples from the Andes northward. One of these peoples the P'urhepecha go on to found the powerful Tarascan state in Mexico, and suggesting heavily that they came over by sea. Though what if another group or a subgroup of the P'urpecha go further up the Pacific Coastline. Bringing with them not only the Potato (the Tarascans in atl would bring the Potato to Mexico too) but also all that knowledge of astronomy and metal culture as well as a route for apossible sea trade thing along the western coast?
As in my efforts to think of different scenarios for the rise of a civilization in the Williamette Valley as apart of my https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=137328 Land of Salmon and Totems TL I have found that only two sources for starting a major agricultural plot could be undertaken in analogue to other cultural and civilization trends. These being the Camas and the Potato.
Though the Camas I am not too sure could be 'Cultivated', generally because I am sketchy of its nutritional capabilities, no major civilizations grew around Camas before, and it was mainly the foodstuffs of the nomadic Plateau Indians east of the Pacific North West. Therefore we have the Potato that revolutionizing spud to turn to.
Now I have thought of two ways already.
One which would benefit for my TL and thoughts on generally making agricultral civilizations anywhere along the Pacific Coast would be that the Potato from its homeisland in the southern Andes (though their are at least three native potato species in Mexico and the Texas area: Solanum fendleri, Solanum bulbocastanum , and another but I have not seen any use of these for eating persay and I want to focus on this for the famous potato) or later when it spreads throughout the Andes for it to fall into the ocean andlet currents takeit northward, or a miratory bird eats a potato and heads northward and plants the seeds so to speak somewhere up north.
The other being old Tupac Inca instead of heading out to sea heads up the Pacific Coastline (which actually could result in the Mesoamerican and Andes civilizations meet). Bringing the plant and from their it spreads on its own.
Though the latter scenario is too late for my ideal POD, and I feel the former is possible but I would like any other ideas.
Though a interesting last idea would be oh say...sometime during the 600s or 700s when in OTL we see a migration of peoples from the Andes northward. One of these peoples the P'urhepecha go on to found the powerful Tarascan state in Mexico, and suggesting heavily that they came over by sea. Though what if another group or a subgroup of the P'urpecha go further up the Pacific Coastline. Bringing with them not only the Potato (the Tarascans in atl would bring the Potato to Mexico too) but also all that knowledge of astronomy and metal culture as well as a route for apossible sea trade thing along the western coast?
