Re:In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
by dragonwriter on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @02:38PM
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> Even if you were a very poor European peasant in the middle ages, you would still get to eat potatoes
No, you wouldn't, as a European of any social class, except maybe in the very late middle ages at the boundary of the Renaissance; potatoes were a New World import in the 16th century, which might just still be considered the Middle Ages in some parts of Europe.
No, you wouldn't, as a European of any social class, except maybe in the very late middle ages at the boundary of the Renaissance; potatoes were a New World import in the 16th century, which might just still be considered the Middle Ages in some parts of Europe.