I recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/True-History-Chocolate-Sophie-Coe/dp/0500282293
Michael Coe actually goes into detail on it. Only part I have a hard time recreating is the pour frothing part
Here’s a link to a free English translation of the legend of Lord 8-Deer, for anyone interested:
Granted. Pre-Columbian Foodways: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Food, Culture, and Markets in Ancient Mesoamerica https://www.amazon.com/dp/1441904700/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apan_glt_fabc_QZ8SXR29YCB0F570QBM0
Mind you, the request didn't include "affordable."
Clive Cussler actually had a theory before he died that in high altitude areas, the Maya and other groups hid their codices where they could still be found today preserved in the high altitude climate. Fuck finding them would be the find of the millennium. I personally refuse to believe that if the Maya and other groups put SO MUCH value and the burnings caused them the emotional pain it did they didn't try to do this.
Outside of Beyond Germs, most of the sources that would give you an alternate Americapox are pretty scattered.
There actually is a pretty good saga of threads on /r/badhistory that discuss Americapox as well as his video on zebras. In there you'll find plenty of sources that talk about the reality of zoonotic diseases, epidemic spreads in the Americas, and even some bits on Europeans that died of American diseases.
Wheels aren't actually that intuitive to make. Even a wheelbarrow that a human can efficiently move requires a well-established knowledge base of its function. You can make a primitive wheelbarrow using a cross-cut log, maybe, but even with one wheel it'd be so clunky that you'd be better off with a tumpline or travois.
I feel like it's getting pretty close to 1:1 the times I've recommended <em>Beyond Germs</em> for every post online I've seen that mentions Guns, Germs and Steel. Now if only I can find some good books for the "guns and steel" bit...