thatswhywelovegermany:thirdtimecharmed:brainstatic:Welcome to the history department, we hope you en
thatswhywelovegermany:thirdtimecharmed:brainstatic:Welcome to the history department, we hope you enjoy your stay.You laugh but the potato made average life expectancy skyrocket.NO THIS IS COMPLETELY TRUE well in Europe it did anyway because potatoes can grow ANYWHERE and they have a lot of nutritional value so when they started coming over from the Americas in the triangle trade suddenly peasants were like wow look there’s something with caloric value maybe we can like not starve to death and that’s basically how ireland happened.It’s not only Ireland. Prussia, being a state mainly located on lands with poor soil and constantly in trouble how to feed the population, would never have come to such power if Frederick the Great had not introduced the potato in 1756 – and the rise of Prussia changed history forever. People still honor him by placing potatoes on his grave. -- source link
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