The Unbelievable History of Sweet Potatoes
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In this video, we take a look at the history of sweet potatoes, from their earliest origins, to the oceans they traversed in pre-history, to their spread to the plates of the upper classes of Europe, all the way to the modern day. Find us here too! Patreon: www.Patreon.com/Fireoflearning Lucinox – Our Science Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM2dfLR3BR0CHuePEDtxAZw Instagram: @Fire_of_Learning The following music performed by Kevin Macleod Available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Download available at incompetech.com Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, Movement I (Allegro), BWV 1049 [orig. by JS Bach] Accralate These songs provided by the YouTube audio library Island Cocounuts Spanish Rose Simple Gifts Lao Tzu Ehru Hickory Hollow Sources can be viewed for free here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59977183 Picture Attributions By Petr Kratochvil - PublicDomainPictures.net (image page), Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6969497 By Llez - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10483011 By peakpx.com - https://www.peakpx.com/622548/4-men-harvesting-red-sweet-potato-at-daytime, CC BY-SA 1.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85644379 By bandita - https://www.flickr.com/photos/cosmic_bandita/229757349/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6553370 By Michaela Weingartova - Sweet potatoes, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43751601 By Walter Grassroot - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81418566 By Maribel Ponce Ixba (frida27ponce) - Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1724256 By Pedro Szekely at https://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosz/ - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pedrosz/2115782565/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14660546 By katorisi - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2946454 By Susan Slater - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62162879 By Heath Cajandig - Napali kind of afternoon., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61003366 By Melsj - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86531787 By Mohan Dev Bhatt - https://farwesttimesdaily.com, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=104984489 By Chaumot - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84810701 By കാക്കര - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31012170 By Bjørn Christian Tørrissen - Own work by uploader, http://bjornfree.com/galleries.html, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32683550 By Bjørn Christian Tørrissen - Own work by uploader, http://bjornfree.com/galleries.html, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32666265 By Brocken Inaglory, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17776266 By Sakurai Midori - Own work, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5568745 By Coentor - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37742863 By Holger Casselmann - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22426736 By Filo gèn' - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87411983 By Akshay - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38031475 By Zhangzhugang - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19201342 By Earth100 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25116663 By Martin Falbisoner - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56104432 By Swathi Sridharan - Groundnut harvesting 5, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12183669
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