USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Incans boiled, mashed, roasted, fermented in water to create a sticky toqosh, and ground to a pulp and soaked to create almidón de papa (potato starch). Peruvian potatoes soon formed the basis of the Incan diet, sustaining great cities and Incan armies.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Incas were masters of plant domestication, especially potatoes. Their development of the potato was remarkable: from 8 species of weeds having toxic tubers to more than 3000 distinct potato varieties.

Detailed explanation-3: -Early Spanish chroniclers � who misused the Indian word batata (sweet potato) as the name for the potato � noted the importance of the tuber to the Incan Empire. The Incas had learned to preserve the potato for storage by dehydrating and mashing potatoes into a substance called chu�u.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Inca Indians in Peru were the first to cultivate potatoes around 8, 000 BC to 5, 000 B.C. Potato History: The ancient civilizations of the Incas used the time it took to cook a potato as a measurement of time.