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The Potato is first domesticated around 8000 thousand years ago at lake Titicaca. Over the next few thousand years it potatoe agriculture spreads across the Andes.

4000 bc. 6000 years ago a fisherman takes to trading long distance and Potatoe agriculture begins in the Mexican highlands.

Over the next few thousand years potato use spreads across North America mostly as a slash and burn suplement to hunting and gathering but some mound building citys fed almost entirely by potatos are built from place to place from time to time. But such civilisations are usually shortlived and eventually wiped out by blight. But as over domesticates are developed they will eventually become larger and longer lived.

200bc A freak storm carries a whaling boat from North West America across the atlantic beaching in Ireland. On the whaling boat were some potatoe rations. A druid discovers the the boat with a rotting crew and and finds some strange roots inside. He plants them back at his village to see what kind of plant grows from them. A couple of years later he discovers that the bulbs make good eating when boiled. The chief develops a taste for them and they become a fashionable food that spreads across the Druidic world. And even futher a afield into Germanic lands.

Over the next century the Potato slowly becomes a larger part of the average peasents diet. And the size of land needed for a family slowly shrinks so that by 100 bc the population of Northern Europe has quadrupled. The larger numbers of peasents leads to the chief and other aritocrats becoming more wealthy able to afford larger coats of chainmail and over amour.

100bc A century of relative peace comes to an end as dividing up the land between decendents no longer yield enough food for subsistence and the number of migrations and raiders increases.

80bc A bad case of potato blight spreads across Europe. Entire tribes up sticks and search for lands to plunder before there food reserve run out. The civilisations of the Meditereanian are overun by vast bands of maurauders and destroyed.
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