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  1. Inca settle the Pampas

    Sorry. I got the two confused. But would the Sapa Inca not eventually recognize the value of Gran Chaco for agricultural purpouses? As I understand the region was never the center of any civilization even though it is exceptionally well suited for agriculture. It would take a lot less effort to...
  2. Inca settle the Pampas

    According to a map of Patagonia, the Incan Southern border at Maule is several hundred miles farther from cuzco than the Northwestern portions of the Pampas. The heart of the pampas are in Northern Argentina and Uruguay. You seem to be thinking they are farther South.
  3. Inca settle the Pampas

    As I recall, the OTL Inca had a policy of only conquering the territories of civilized peoples. However, the Pampas would prove rather suitable for Incan potato and maize agriculture, being one of the most productive regions of the world, and the andean peoples skilled at adapting their crops to...
  4. No longer wild rice

    I'm aware of the picky diet thing for the moose, that is why the moose are turned out into the woods to eat in the early stages. Moose eat aquatic plants, so presumably they could also be turned out in harvested rice paddies. From what I've read, the semi-donestic moose in russia have been...
  5. No longer wild rice

    I've had an idea for how wild rice cultivation could've taken hold in Northern Minnesota that I'd like to have reviewed by fthe more knowledgeable. The Dakota and Ojibwe people already had the beginnings of protoagriculture before European colonization. They took seeds of wild rice mixed...
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