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Poor people of ____ began to eat better and live longer with the introduction of the humble potato.


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After the potato was introduced to Europe, Europe's poor people started to eat better and live longer. There are many instances of cross-cultural exchange through food. New crops were spread throughout the nations by traders and travellers. New crops can occasionally mean the difference between life and death. Europe’s poor ate better and lived longer with the introduction of the potato.  When a disease destroyed the potato harvest in the middle of the 1840s, Poor peasants of Ireland were so dependent on them that hundreds of thousands perished from famine.
 
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