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The old-world/new-world collision revolutionized European agriculture because corn, potatoes, peanuts, squash, and tomatoes created a more nutritious food base and helped produce a European population explosion.
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The old-world/new-world collision revolutionized European agriculture because corn, potatoes, peanuts, squash, and tomatoes created a more nutritious food base and helped produce a European population explosion.
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"Okay? Eventually, the British and the French will get involved as well. But because South America and Central America were already taken by the..."
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"...that's easy to produce, cheap, and very nutritious. So is the potato. Okay? The potato, over time, will become the staple food of Europeans...."
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"...What really does it is in the 1840s there's a massive potato famine all across Europe."
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"...the Spanish discovered the new world and they brought back the potato. Why is that important? Because a potato will allow Europe to grow..."
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"...create new markets and steal new, steal gold and bring the potato, corn, and tomato back into Europe which allows for population growth. Okay?..."
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"...the age of exploration, Europeans were able to bring back the potato, corn, tomatoes, squash."
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