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At first it didn't. Spanish colonies tended to be men seeking advancement and the women stayed behind, and so they didn't have families in Europe for the most part. The lucky few who struck it rich and went home did of course. The big event in Spain in 1492 was the final defeat of the caliphate of Cordoba, and the end of a generation of war. This would be a better explanation for subsequent population increases than the early colonial efforts in the new world. At the time several plagues were believed to have been brought back from the new world, including syphilis. Much later the population was limited by periodic famine (starvation events) and adoption of the potato as a staple crop increased the available food supply, and the population. The potato was not widely cultivated in Europe until the 1700s.

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