The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

What did the first Chinese Emperor Quinn,

Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great,

Genghis Khan, and the Queen of Sheba,

and all the contemporaries who lived when they did

have in common.

None of them ever ate a potato.

The potato is a rather new addition

to the diets of the old world and one which revolutionized civilization.

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It's remarkable how many foods that we eat today, all around the world, simply didn't exist in the old world of Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Corn, chocolate, vanilla, peppers, green beans, pumpkins, tomatoes, and squash

are all foods that were completely unknown to the peoples of the old world.

Perhaps the most important new world food, however, was the humble potato.

The potato was originally native to South America.

It was first domesticated in Peru anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 years ago.

It's really hard to tell because potatoes aren't very well preserved in the archaeological record,

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