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If it weren't for English colonization they wouldn't have been forced into such risky monocrop behavior.
by Ericson2314 5y ago
If it weren't for English colonization they wouldn't have been forced into such risky monocrop behavior.
- pfortuny 5y agoNote that it was the very Irish who asked the English to come help them in one of their multiple internal wars…
- heavyset_go 5y agoIt was the economic system that was imposed upon the Irish that forced them into relying on a monoculture, too, and forced them to starve. The Irish working class were forced into smaller and smaller subdivisions by English landlords[1], to the point that they could only rely on a potato monoculture[2] to sustain themselves. During the famine, those landlords evicted over half of a million poor and starving Irish people[3]. Those same Irish tenant farmers harvested crops during the famine that were then shipped and sold on the English market[4], while those that harvested them starved. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Tenants_and_subdivisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Tenants... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Potato_dependency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Potato_... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Eviction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Evictio... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Food_exports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Food_ex...