10th Class Social Science The Making of a Global World Question Bank 10th CBSE Social Science The Making of a Global World

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      How potatoes became the food for poor?

    Answer:

                      (i) Sometimes the new crops could make the difference between life and death. (ii) Europe's poor began to eat better and live longer with the introduction of humble potato. (iii) 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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