The high mountains of Peru are cold. The Incas could not grow corn [9] there but they could grow potatoes. How did those potatoes get to [10] Europe! the early Spanish explorers of Peru brought them to Spain in the 1530s. What a success potatoes were at [11] first, wealthy people had parties just to try the new food.
Then some questions arose. Did potatoes cause [12] disease, or did they poison the soil? For a while, many Europeans believed potatoes were dangerous. Fortunately, people got over such a silly idea. They planted potatoes [13] widely and soon the crop was plentiful. How important the new crop turned our to [14] be many Europeans had enough food for the first time.