It affected them immeasurably because it enabled them to trade this surplus of food for things that they might need from other countries and thus get other pieces of technology or knowledge or anything similar. They could improve their state that way and that's how development of civilizations began.
Tenant farmers or women sorry if it’s wrong
It was the "Oregon Train" that brought settlers to the Willamette Valley, sine although there were other smaller trails in the region, this was the most traveled by those wanting to start new lives and businesses in the region.
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A Indian (native) medicine men