Original: W.H. Barreveld wrote : '' One could go as far as to say that , had the date palm not existed , the expansion of the human race into the hot and barren parts of the '' old '' world would have been much more restricted .
Simplified: Historian W.H. Barreveld wrote : '' Had the date palm not existed , the expansion of the human race into the hot and barren parts of the '' old '' world would have been much more restricted .