who brought potatoes to europe
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Potato According to conservative estimates, the introduction of the potato was responsible for a quarter of the growth in Old World population and urbanization between 1700 and 1900. Following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, the Spanish introduced the potato to Europe in the second half of the 16th century.
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definitions - potatoreport a problem The English word potato comes from Spanish patata (the name used in Spain). The Spanish Royal Academy says the Spanish word is a compound of the Taino batata (sweet potato) and the Quechua papa (potato).
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Americans European Americans (also known as Euro-Americans) are Americans with ancestry from Europe. The Spanish were the first Europeans to establish a continuous presence in what is now the United States. Martín de Argüelles born 1566, St. Augustine, Spanish Florida, was the first known person of European descent born in what is now the United States.
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History of Cucumbers Christopher Columbus brought cucumbers to Haiti in 1494 where they were grown by Spanish settlers and distributed further across New World. During 16th century, European trappers in North America introduced cucumbers to the native Indians in the region of Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains.
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- Fig 2 – Settlement of Europe from the East. 4 About 9000 – 7000 years ago, Anatolian farmers settled in. Europe, introducing agriculture to the continent which was then sparsely occupied by hunter-. gatherers, with whom they interbred (a).
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- Potatoes were brought back to Ireland and the rest of Europe from  the New World, South America, upon their discovery by European  explorers. Potatoes were not found anywh … ere in Europe, Asia or  Africa until they were imported.is fathers family came from Wexford, in the south east of Ireland and he came to visit the place they came from. His mothers family was from Limerick but he did visit that pa … rt of Ireland.
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Columbian Exchange By the 1840s, Ireland was so dependent on the potato that the proximate cause of the Great Famine was a potato disease. Maize and manioc, introduced by the Portuguese from South America in the 16th century, have replaced sorghum and millet as Africa's most important food crops.offee (introduced in the Americas circa 1720) from South America and sugar cane (introduced from South Asia) from the Spanish West Indies became the main export commodity crops of extensive Latin American plantations.
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Who Invented French Fries? According to Jo Gerard, a historian of Belgium, early traces on who invented french fries can be seen during the 1680s. In Gerard’s findings, poor inhabitants of Belgium usually had small fried fish with their meals.ccording to this legend, some American or British soldiers went to Belgium on World War I, and were able to taste the Belgian french fries. Since the official language of the army of Belgium was French, the term “French” was attached to the dish of fried potatoes and initially used by these soldiers.
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Potato In the Andes, where the species is indigenous, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species. Potatoes were introduced outside the Andes region approximately four centuries ago, and have since become an integral part of much of the world's food supply.
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- The tulip, originally from Persia & Asia Minor, found their way to Constantinopel, where they were first seen (in 1554) by de Busbecq, ambassador of Emperor Ferdinand I. 1  Holland History -.
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History of Lima Bean Plants White settlers transported lima beans back to Europe, but they did not catch on as well in northern countries where climates were not warm enough for the plants to thrive. They were also carried to Africa, India and other places in the world for cultivation.
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How European Farmers Spread Agriculture Across Continent Osteologists Ove and Evy Persson during the excavation of the grave at Ajvide, Gotland, Sweden, in 1983. An analysis of 5,000-year-old genetic material from preserved human remains found in Sweden suggests that people moving from southern to northern Europe spread agriculture across that continent long ago.
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- Short History of the Potato. The record of the potatos exact place of origin and how it came to the Mediterranean is scanty. The latest evidence for its origin points in several directions: to the Chilo region of Chile, to southern Peru, and to Bolivia-northern Argentina.
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The great potato debate: Nutritionists insist spuds ARE vegetables Since 1536 when the potato (Solanum tuberosum) first arrived in Europe from Peru, it has become increasingly popular as a staple part of the diet and is now grown on an estimated 48 million acres around the world.
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- The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was one of the most important people in the history of polar exploration. He traveled to both the Arctic and the Antarctic, and he was the first person to reach the South Pole. (1872-1928). One of the most important figures in the history of polar exploration was Roald Amundsen.
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thecajuns.com genealogy, history and culture M. and Mme. LeBleu of Bordeaux, France were the first recorded Europeans to settle the area around 1781 [Note There is some confusion re Barthelemy LeBleu and Martin Camersac LeBleu who had natural children with Josette Lamirande who married Barthelemy LeBleu at Pointe Coupee in 1769].
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The 'Columbian Exchange'How Discovering the Americas Transformed the World A recent book takes a closer look at how items from the New World, such as potatoes, guano and rubber, quickly and radically transformed the rest of the planet. Tobacco, potatoes and turkeys came to Europe from America. In exchange, Europeans brought wheat, measles and horses.
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Irish cuisine Potatoes form the basis for many traditional Irish dishes. The potato was introduced into Ireland in the second half of the 16th century, initially as a garden crop. It eventually came to be the main food crop of the poor. As a food source, the potato is extremely valuable in terms of the amount of energy produced per unit area of crop.
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- California officials to comply with program requirements; however, as of November 2009, the. procedures have yet to be finalized. As a result, the California SOP is not equipped to properly. enforce the requirements of the NOP. Although the Organic Foods Production Act5 of 1990 requires certifying agents to conduct.
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What country do potatoes come from? NOTE: Although potatoes were called “potatoes of the Virginia” by early English botanists, they were in fact from South America, not the state of Virginia in the United States. The potato was carried on to Italy and England about 1585, to Belgium and Germany by 1587, to Austria about 1588, and to France around 1600.
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Historical Timeline â 17th-18th Centuries New crops from Europe include clover, alfalfa, timothy, small grains, and fruits and vegetables; African slaves introduce grain and sweet sorghum, melons, okra, and peanuts. 18th century Tobacco is the chief cash crop of the South. 1793 First Merino sheep imported. 1795-1815 Sheep industry greatly emphasized in New England. Transportation. 18th century
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- A2. Tomatoes didn t arrive in Europe until the 16th Century, although it is not known how. It has been said that they were brought back from Central America by Spanish Conquistadors Another legend suggests that two Jesuit priests brought them to Italy from Mexico. Others say Columbus brought the first tomato to Europe.
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- European Emigration to the U.S. 1851 - 1860. Although the Irish potato blight receded in 1850, the effects of the famine continued to spur Irish emigration into the 20th century. Still facing poverty and disease, the Irish set out for America where they reunited with relatives who had fled at the height of the famine. Background Between 1845 and 1850, a devastating fungus destroyed Ireland's potato crop. During these years, starvation and related diseases claimed as many as a million lives, while perhaps twice that number of Irish immigrated — 500,000 of them to the United States, where they accounted for more than half of all immigrants in the 1840s.
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What Caused the Irish Potato Famine? [This article originally appeared in The Free Market, April 1998; Volume 16, Number 4.] British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized for doing too little in response to the Irish Potato Famine of the 19th century that killed one million people and brought about the emigration of millions more. But in fact, the English government was guilty of doing too much.
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History Origin - Sweet Potatoes After his first voyage to the Americas in 1492, Christopher Columbus took sweet potatoes back home to Europe. The crop was introduced into China in the late 16th century and spread through Asia, Africa, and Latin America during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Vasco da Gama [ˈvaʃku ðɐ ˈɣɐmɐ] ; c. 1460s – 23 December 1524) was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean route, as well as the Atlantic and the Indian oceans entirely and definitively, and in this way, the West and the Orient.