• Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 days ago

    Yeah, and then because they were fully reliant on a single crop to provide their food, when the potato blight reached Europe, the Irish were extra fucked.

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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      7 days ago

      Yes, the same blight affected france, belgium and others. It wasnt their main food source, so it led to scarcety but not famine.