Assertion: pepper | /r/HasProperty | cultivated throughout southern and middle europe
Facets:
value: by the mid-17th century
type: TEMPORAL
value: as a spice and medicinal drug
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: It was either Christopher Columbus or his accompanying physician Chanca who first reported the use of Capsicum in the Americas around 1493-1494 and certainly Columbus who introduced it to Europe; by the mid-17th century Capsicum was being cultivated throughout southern and middle Europe as a spice and medicinal drug, with introductions of one species to Japan and five to India (for mass cultivation in the colonies, from the Portuguese) around this time (Basu and De, 2003).