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mrs_skeptik [129]
3 years ago
6

Where did the Potato Famine strike?

History
2 answers:
love history [14]3 years ago
6 0

It happened in Ireland and  was a period of famine, disease and mass emigration between 1845 and a variable date between 1849 and 1852, in which the population of Ireland was reduced between 20 and 25 per cent. Hunger killed some one million people and forced more than a million to emigrate from the island mainly to the United States and Canada. The cause of hunger was a disease caused by the <em>oomycete Phytophthora infestans</em>, which contaminated potatoes across Europe in the 1840s. Although the whole of Europe was affected, a third of the population of Ireland depended potatoes to survive, and the problem was exacerbated by several factors linked to the political, social and economic situation


mafiozo [28]3 years ago
4 0

C. Ireland, in 1845-49. Hope this helps!

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