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Brought to Europe from the New World by Spanish explorers, the lowly potato gave rise to modern industrial agriculture

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

The Colombian Exchange is a term that describes the most dramatic biologic transfer in history.  European explorers brought animals and agricultural items from the Old World to the New and subsequently brought back items from the New World back to the Old.  This exchange profoundly reshaped many societies as agricultural diffusion of the potato lead to the changes across northern Europe. 

Tags: agriculture, food production, diffusion, Europe. 

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