Multiple choice

Ireland’s poorest peasants were so dependent on which of the following common foods brought from America that when disease destroyed its crop in the mid 1840s, hundreds of thousands died of starvation?

  1. Corn

  2. Tomato

  3. Potato

  4. Soya

  5. Sweet potatoes

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