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Chapter 13 in Atlantic World explains the large migration throughout the Atlantic during the Industrial Age and many of those Europe who migrated to the United States were Irish immigrants. European migration spread throughout the United States because for many immigrants the United States helped many immigrants creating societies and crops. One example of migration was Irish migrants moving from Ireland to the United States. Irish farmers used potatoes as cash to pay their rents to their Protestant English landlords because it was used to bargain as their form of payment and Irish potatoes had value. Potatoes were one of the crops that Irish Farmers had during the 1840s and become the staple of the Irish diet by this time. (Chapter 13, Page 441-442). The reason Irish migrants chose to move to the United States because of debts in Ireland were high and more opportunities to establish homes, crops, and societies. The majority of Irish migration was in the United States, which received 85 percent of Irish immigrants. (Chapter 13, Page 442). I think Irish immigrants’ move to the United States was important because more opportunities for Irish immigrants to build their society by growing crops on their land that these Irish immigrants would live on their land, and hopefully would bring a better feature for these Irish immigrants and their families. There were several European immigrants that moved to Africa because the British owned parts of Africa and had a lot more resources located in Africa. The series of migration helped create production because with European throughout the Atlantic on various countries, it could help trade through production, plantation, and food to help the economy. This reading reminds me of Danny Alvarez’s reading from Caterina Pizzigoni on local indigenous society in Mexico because just like the Irish, the Mexicans had to make payment to their landlords towards their homes. The maguey plants were used for either food or material fuel in Mexico. The maguey gave the Toluca people an ecological advantages to help pay off for their well-being with low-wage rental housing and unequal debts in Mexico.