SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FIRST THANKSGIVING HISTORY FACTS FOODS
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Detailed explanation-1: -8000 years ago The earliest recorded trace of the spud was found in the Peruvian Andes at around 6000BC. Research implies that communities of hunters initially came to the South American continent 7000 years before harvesting wild potato plants.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Herriot, an astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator, is credited with first introducing the potato into England from Colombia in South America on December 3rd, 1586. It was a fateful event. The potato was a richer food source than grain.
Detailed explanation-3: -Potatoes arrived in the colonies in the 1620s when the Governor of the Bahamas sent a gift box containing potatoes to the governor of the colony of Virginia.
Detailed explanation-4: -It was introduced in India by the Portuguese sailors during early 17th century and it’s cultivation was spread to North India by the British. Potato is one of main commercial crop grown in the country. It is cultivated in 23 states in India.