A delay on monsoons can turn around a whole Indian economy!
Early Roman alphabet is the answer.
The main crop grown by the Cherokee is C. Corn
Because The beginning of Cherokee culture is identified with the cultivation of corn by the native people in the Southern Appalachians more than a thousand years ago.
This is evidenced by the flag that was flown over the Alamo. It was the Mexican tricolor of red, white and green modified by having 1824 sewn into the white strip. The 1824 stood for the liberal constitution that Mexico had adopted right after independence from Spain.
