Question 1
1. Throughout Europe, potatoes were regarded with suspicion, distaste and fear. Even peasants refused to eat from a plant that produced ugly, misshapen tubers and that had come from a heathen civilisation. Some felt that the potato plant’s resemblance to plants in the nightshade family hinted that it was the creation of witches or devils.
Peasants at that time did not like to eat potatoes because they were ugly.
Question 2
2. Potatoes did not become a staple until, during the food shortages associated with the Revolutionary Wars, the English government began to officially encourage potato cultivation.
The popularity of potatoes in the UK was due to food shortages during the war.
Question 3
3. Builders in Uruk would carefully level what had stood before, and then build another structure on top, often trying out a different building material or an innovative technique.
Builders in Uruk frequently experimented with new construction methods.
Question 4
4. People all across the flat plains of southern Mesopotamia were enjoying many of the benefits of city life.
Urban settlements were unusual in Mesopotamia.
Question 5
5. As the small amount of rainfall in the region was incapable of sustaining anything but very limited agriculture, it was only the Euphrates river that provided water for irrigation, and both the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers were also the basis of a communication system that led to the spread of the latest concepts in farming.
The Tigris and the Euphrates rivers were important for the interchange of ideas.
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