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Potatoes comprised about 10% of the caloric intake of Europeans. Along with several other foods that either originated in the Americas or were successfully grown or harvested there, potatoes sustained European populations. [47] The potato promoted economic development in Britain by underpinning the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century. It ...
1763 – International "Potato Show" in Paris with corn varieties from different states; 1804 – Vincenzo Dandolo writes several treatises of agriculture and sericulture. 1809 – French confectioner Nicolas Appert invents canning; 1837 – John Deere invents steel plough; 1866 – Gregor Mendel publishes his paper describing Mendelian inheritance
The introduction of the potato also brought about the first intensive use of fertilizer, in the form of guano imported to Europe from Peru, and the first artificial pesticide, in the form of an arsenic compound used to fight Colorado potato beetles. Before the adoption of the potato as a major crop, the dependence on grain had caused repetitive ...
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1625: Watermelons are widespread in Europe, as a minor garden crop. [33] 1629: First introduction of watermelons in North America, in Massachusetts. [33] ~1650: Watermelons are now common around the New World. [33] 1650-1765: Spreading of potato cultivation in the Netherlands. [20] 1651: The government mandates the cultivation of potatoes in ...
The exports were small-scale until the 1860s, when bad crops in Europe, and lower costs due to cheaper railroads and ocean transport, opened the European markets to cheap American wheat. The British in particular depended on American wheat during the 1860s for a fourth of their food supply, making the government reluctant to risk a cutoff if it ...
The World Carrot Museum contains one of the largest collections of fine artworks containing an image of carrots, in their various colors. Paintings have often been used as sources in historical studies of crops, and plant biologists have been able to identify old species using historical artworks.
Potatoes eventually became an important staple food in the diets of many Europeans, contributing to an estimated 12 to 25% of the population growth in Afro-Eurasia between 1700 and 1900. [12] The introduction of the potato to the Old World accounts for 47 percent of the increase in urbanization between 1700 and 1900. [13]