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Only due to this new crop which originates in #Peru, was the #IrishPopulationExplosion possible: from approximately 2 million in 1700 to 8.5 million by 1845.
The algae (#PhytophthoraInfestans) that caused successive crop failures of the imported #Monoculture staple diet, led 2 a #PotatoDisease called #LateBlight. It originated in the #Toluca Valley in ๐ฒ๐ฝ and spread from the ๐บ๐ธ 2 ๐ฎ๐ช.
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The Great Irish Famine: How the Potato Blight Claimed a Million Lives
ย The Great Irish Famine: How the Potato Blight Claimed a Million Lives Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland experienced one of the most dev...sheet of history (sheet of histoey)
