https://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=71.121.138.177&feedformat=atomCunnan - User contributions [en]2024-03-19T11:44:23ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.39.3https://cunnan.lochac.sca.org/index.php?title=Discovery_of_the_Americas&diff=34953Discovery of the Americas2007-09-28T02:41:28Z<p>71.121.138.177: </p>
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<div>The main [[Europe]]an '''discovery of the Americas''' and its subsequent colonisation happened VERY late in [[period]]. <br />
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I've heard it said that [[potato]]es and [[cacao]] made it to [[Europe]] only in the last ten or so years of the [[Renaissance]], and that it took another few years to work out that potatoes when ripe were good for [[cooking]]. [[Tomato]] and [[eggplant]] were both considered to be [[poison]]ous and merely grown as ornamental plants. Eggplants, in fact, gave small, egg-shaped white fruit (thus the name) - it wasn't til *WAY* [[OOP]] that they became the big, purple things they are today. Other [[New world foods|"new world" fruit]] or [[vegetable]]s were basically OOP as well as the [[Old World]] was suspicious of these weird new vegetables. Similarly you'll find [[chocolate]] is so rare as to be almost non-existent - it wasn't available in blocks yet, though spiced chocolate drinks were possible in some regions (though also rare) like german seamen.<br />
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You can still console yourself with a hunk of [[venison]] and a nice slice of [[honey]] tart.<br />
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''See also:''<br />
* [[New World]]<br />
* [[New world foods]]</div>71.121.138.177