Grande Caral

Note: Work in progress post about a geniuses begat in the Norte Chico civilization that could have potentially existed and changed the fate of his people.

Introduction and Inheritance-Based PODs

The communal constructional construction of the Norte Chico civilization in our timeline was generally estimated to be founded around 3500 BCE, although communal advancement started around 3100 BCE. Huaricanga was their first settlement city in both our timeline and this one.

However, in this timeline, an unnamed citizen in Huaricanga manages to have an almost impossibly rare IQ around 3116 BCE, and in this year both discovers and invents new ideals of beta-industrialization for their agricultural and societal development so that rather than staying in one area, they can expand along the coastlines and cut through the Western of the Amazon in the next millennium. The man also suggested He or she then becomes the next leader of the civilization, known solely as "The Intelligent One" in their native language.

As far as expanding goes, this society is like how Rome expanded, only slightly easier due to the fact that there's no competing civilizations in the regions near the empire as of yet.

 Into the Timeline 

They continue to base their ideologies on this new system of expanding their settlements by using the resources around them despite few in their people's beliefs, and the next great leader (known as "The Followed One") takes forth in his grandfather's rare mindset by incorporating new elements to Norte Chico's beliefs carried on from his father (by around 3056 BCE), such as adding newer and more huntsman-like while also somehow more elements to Shamanism in the region. An example of such was saying that 'any soul that does not walk on two legs unless a predator reaped for a cause' may instantly go to a sort of heaven he idealized, and that 'after you or another individual die, you reach this other realm as well.' Such new rules to the civilization's now slightly-altered religion instated that they may use the edge of the Amazon and other coastlines for their own deeds and the like unless it causes too much harm for their own people or civilization customs so that they may not be an issue.

One later descendent of The Followed One (known as "The Shaping One") only a couple decades after his elder's death assembled a squadron of the civilization to invent a circular device after being inspired by the shape of the moon, but is much later known by a different name after further civilization progress continues learns to discover a new means of transportation before the civilization practically becomes a monarchy; namely the wheel, but under a different word for the invention. This wheel used to be used solely as a spiritual symbol due to the factors that led up to the incorporation of the Moon becoming a sign of faith for other reasons (being theorized and debated to Modern Day in this timeline as to why) due to the reforms of The Followed One's descendant. The transition from religious purposes to transportation happened

Amongst the tribe, one of The Shaping One's assemblers in the group, told to be 'but forty-four moons from that day', had an idea that he shared with The Shaping One about how else to use this new talisman for other purposes. Originally, this assembler was but a woodcutter (and supposedly fearless, as older historians have gathered) thanks to The Followed One's religious reformations, before on request of The Shaping One he was gathered into the group. He had crafted himself furniture to bring to his home that he was about to sit on when an idea struck him. He went over to The Shaping One's dwelling, and demanded he and the assemblers could make more than one of said objects. The Shaping One hesitated at first, but then agreed shortly after with the man. He assembled a chair connected to a wooden rod protruding out of the front, with two more rods connecting to it in perpendicular directions, with each side of the two other rods going through a center carved out of each of four wheels. He then asked if The Shaping One could climb to the seat, and asked that the assemblers push. That's how the cart would later be invented using similar schematics, and chariot when used with llamas nearby. This made expansion much easier. The man who came up with the idea, by the way, was later called "The Crafty One".