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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
One profitable business for inter-world trade is flower importation. Particularly orchids which are stupidly popular due to their many distinctive varietals and roses. That bio-tech Alexander parallel probably does an awesome job of breeding exotic flowers.
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Mindblowingly good call. The Rose gardens of 17th century France and Imperial Rome, both famous for the rich
Scents of their Roses would also pull adventurers to Echos at those time periods. Ancient and Medieval Persia would also pull in flower thieves after roses. In each of the mentioned cases, the flowers are in the gardens of wealthy people with legitimate reasons to be suspicious of anyone sneaking around near their homes and plenty of hired swords to get rid of troublemakers.
Further thought. Mayan agriculture was wildly productive in a tropical lowland. The secrets of what they did right, and an analysis of what went wrong, would be in serious demand. But think of the trouble of being an anthropologist/agronomist amoung the Classical Maya. Can you say human sacrafice?