Assertion: cotton | /r/CapableOf | displace flax
Facets:
value: during the industrial revolution
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The British desire for cotton would change by the 17th century when the East India Company began importing rare fabrics from India, and coincides with the 1793 invention of the cotton gin—a machine that separated the seeds from the fiber and allowed cotton to displace flax and wool during the Industrial Revolution.