Soon after the columbian exchange began, european ships carried potatoes from the americas to europe. which was an intentional consequence of that action? a. potatoes replaced wheat and barley as profitable crops in central and southern europe. b. over a million irish died in the famine that resulted when the irish potato crop, the major source of food and income for irish farmers, was destroyed by a blight. c. europeans boycotted potatoes as a means of showing their disapproval with the working conditions of native laborers. d. people in northern and western europe started planting and eating potatoes as an important source of nutrition.

The correct answer is D) People in northern and western Europe started planting and eating potatoes as an important source of nutrition.

Soon after the Columbian Exchange began, European ships carried potatoes from the Americas to Europe. An intentional consequence of that action was that people in northern and western Europe started planting and eating potatoes as an important source of nutrition.

European farmers saw the benevolence of potatoes as a crop and the nutritious properties it had, so they thought to themselves, "why to import the cash crop in it can be cultivated in Europe, and that is what they did successfully. Some countries such as Ireland depended so much on this cash crop that when the crops failed due to blight, the country lived a period of hunger known as the Potatoe Famine.