Name: Instructor's name: Course: Date:Critical Thinking Potatoes were not “native” vegetable to Ireland but probably came from South America-Peru’s Andes Mountains originally. In the early fifteen hundreds, conquerors from Spain found the Incas growing the plant, which was called “patata” by the Spaniards. The Spanish took them back to Europe which eventually got their way into England where the name “patata” changed to potato. Among the major and obvious implications of the famine was emigration. Even though the famine alone most likely caused a million deaths, the resulting emigration brought about a drop in the population by a further three million. Almost a million of the...
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