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The importance of the potato as a crop for bringing formerly difficult lands into cultivation, and spurring great population growth in Europe is something I've read about here and elsewhere. The Mediterranean focus of OTL classical civilisation made me wonder; what if the potato was transposed to be domesticated in Europe? Would higher population densities and civilisations more advanced than OTL arise in the north?