Re: Uh... - Edit 1
Before modification by Camilla at 08/04/2010 12:17:05 PM
What if black pepper had been an indigenous plant in Europe and/or the Middle East? Not only does that impact a small but important part of medieval trade - the most long-distance one - but it also is of crucial importance to the European discovery journeys of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, and hence to the entire concept of colonialism.
Or what if potatoes or tobacco had not been imported from South America.
Tobacco was from North America/the Caribbean, or at least the specific species that are smoked by most people
Of course, if tobacco was not a cash crop, my family would never have been wealthy in the early 19th century (nor would they have lost most everything between the Panic of 1837 and the Civil War
)Yesyes. Details. I come from Norway. Everywhere that is warm enough for tobacco growing is per definition SOUTH.