What was the effect of potatoes on the lives of the poorest in Europe ?

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Abhishek Mishra

2 years ago

The new crops of potatoes made a great change in the lives of the poor in Europe because they began to eat better and live longer. In Ireland poorest peasants became so dependent that when disease destroyed the potato crop in the mid 1840s, thousands died of starvation.

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