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Tea is believed to have originated in ancient China, where it was first valued for its —medicinalmedicalmedicinemedicating properties before becoming a daily drink. Traders later carried it along overland routes to Central Asia, and by the seventeenth century European merchants had —turnedturned intochangedconverted tea into a global commodity. Today, the crop is cultivated across a —rangevarietyamountnumber of climates, from humid lowlands to cool mountain slopes.