If corn and potatoes are from the Americas, why weren’t Native Americans making whiskey and vodka before the Europeans showed up?
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Because New World societies had remarkably little technological development in certain areas like food production and metallurgy. The extent to which thus was caused by relatively low population density vs low population density being a product of it is extensively debated and studied. Many North American civilizations did not even have a system of writing, which is one of the reasons we know so little about their history. It was mostly oral tradition that was lost when post Columbian contact annihilated their numbers.
It is weird to comprehend societies that could chart the stars and calculate eclipses, but could barely farm beyond the most basic neolithic practices (except for the Inca’s, who at least practiced terracing), but history is stranger than fiction. You can’t make it up and make it sound believable.
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