If corn and potatoes are from the Americas, why weren’t Native Americans making whiskey and vodka before the Europeans showed up?

Question

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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Answer 1

What you are asking is “why didn’t Indigneous Americans have distillation”

As seen from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillation), many distillation are developed from alchemy, whose purpose is to get gold, elxir of immortality, or a panaceas to cure all disease.

So the question then becomes: whether Indigenous Americans’s philosophy and spirituality promote alchemy. At that, I have no idea – an open question for you to explore.