La Tormenta Grande-How a Hurricane Chaned History

Post #1 of La Tormenta Grande: La Tormenta Grande

December 27th, 1492: Noon
Off the Coast of Cuba
Aboard the Niña

Vicente Yanez Pinzon of Palos, captain of the Niña, was looking out over the ocean. As he scanned the waves he thought about recent events. Just as he was about to go back to his cabin he saw a dark mass off in the distance. At first, it looked like it could be land, but as he looked closer he realized that it was a mass of clouds. They looked angry. He noticed that the waves and swells were beginning to get larger. As he hurried away to begin preparations for a storm he said a prayer under his breath, " Dear God, no! Please let it be a minor storm, please!"

2 hours later:
Vicente was on the deck of the Niña. He was ready to help out when the storm hit. Unfortunately, as he now knew, the storm was no small one; it was a [1] Tormenta Grande. He hoped his ship would survive. However, as the first rain began to fall on the deck, he had a feeling that it wouldn't.

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Excerpt from A History of The Tequesta Tribe

…When the Spanish ships sank off the coast of Tequestan Lands most of the sailors managed to get onto boats and get to shore. There they met the Tequesta people. They were welcomed by the People and were allowed to stay at [2] Tequestata. With them they brought new ideas. The most important of them was agriculture. Used for centuries by the Iroquois tribes the Tequestan people had never thought of it. The Spanish, however, changed this. The People immediately began cultivation of some plants in new fields at Tequestan. Agriculture spread to others of the People quickly. One of the most important effects that this had was the People's overthrow of their Calusan opressors to the North…

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[1] Huge storm, this will eventually evolve into the name for a Hurricane
[2] The Tequestan settlement on OTL Cape Sable

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If the natives don't have agriculture and the Spanish are shipwrecked, what plants are they growing?

If they didn't have it, then they didn't need it. So why would it spread beyond the Spanish?
 
If the natives don't have agriculture and the Spanish are shipwrecked, what plants are they growing?

If they didn't have it, then they didn't need it. So why would it spread beyond the Spanish?
The natives in that village just never thought of it. It is letting them support more people. They are using plants that loooked promising to the Spanish.
 
A hurricane on December 27? Possible, but unlikely.
They are in the Carribean, but remember it never says that its a hurricane, just that that name will eventually became the name for a hurricane. It was only a big storm, call it a hurricane if you want...:D
 
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