[Alas Babylon!]

Don’t forget the potato.

Native to the Andes, and practically fed Europe a few hundred years later, to the point where a potato disease forced half of Ireland to North America and Australia!

[DesertRhino]

Yessir. I knew a Special Forced Colonel who spent time in Peru. He told me how the locals were bragging about that and could tell him the number of varieties they had.

Also the New World gave the world tomatoes, corn and chocolate. And of course, Rum.

[blam]

"Native to the Andes, and practically fed Europe a few hundred years later, to the point where a potato disease forced half of Ireland to North America and Australia!"

Aye.

The population of Ireland in 1840 is higher than it is even today.

There are approximately 2,000 different kinds of potatoes....Ireland had only one and it fell prey to a fungus.