Pepper
Chili peppers from Central America
One kind of pepper is the kind you call chili peppers, green pepper, or red pepper. People in South America were gathering this kind of pepper as early as 7500 BC, not long after people first came to South America. By about 4000 BC, farmers were growing chili peppers in South America.
A third kind of pepper, Sichuan pepper, grew in China, where people also used it to spice their food.
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More about peppers - Black pepper and Sichuan pepper
For more information about pepper, check out these books from Amazon.com or from your library:
Rice, by Roz Denny (1998). For kids. Beautifully illustrated.
Rice: Origin, History, Technology, and Production, edited by C. Wayne Smith and Robert H. Dilday (2002). For specialists, by specialists.
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Cite this page: Carr, Karen. "" Kidipede - History for Kids. 2012. http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/food/chilipepper.htm
