How potatoes became the food for poor? -SST 10th

How potatoes became the food for poor? -SST 10th
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. Sometimes the new crops could make the difference between life and death. . Europe’s poor began to eat better and live longer with the introduction of humble potato. . Ireland’s poorest peasants became so dependent on potatoes that when disease destroyed the potato crop in mid 1840’s, hundreds of thousands died of starvation.
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