Question

Coffee is originated in
(a) America
(b) Europe
(c) Africa
(d) Asia minor

Answer 1

Often known as Anatolia or the Anatolian plateau, Asia Minor is the westernmost protrusion of Asia, which consists primarily of modern Turkey. Typically, Asia Minor is synonymous with Asian Turkey, which consists of almost the whole world.

Complete answer:
It is assumed that the native (undomesticated) root of coffee beans was Ethiopia. From the early 15th century, in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen, the earliest substantiated reports of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree soon spread to Mecca and Cairo.
The remainder of the Middle East, South India (Karnataka), Persia, Turkey, the Horn of Africa, and northern Africa had reached it by the 16th century. In spite of the prohibitions enforced during the 15th century by religious leaders in Mecca and Cairo, and later by the Catholic Church, coffee then spread to the Balkans, Italy, and the rest of Europe, as well as to Southeast Asia.

Additional information:
On the island of Malta, coffee was first introduced to Europe in the 16th century. It was introduced by slavery there. In 1565, the year of the Great Siege of Malta, Turkish Muslim slaves were imprisoned by the Knights of St John, and they used it to make their popular drink. In his work Virtu del Kafé, Domenico Magri listed "Turks, most skillful makers of this concoction."
After the Battle of Vienna, the first coffeehouse in Austria opened in Vienna in 1683, using supplies from the spoils gained after defeating the Turks. The coffee house was opened by the officer who received the coffee beans, Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki, a Polish military officer (possibly of Ruthenian descent, according to modern Ukrainian authors), who helped popularize the tradition of adding coffee to sugar and milk.
In 1720, in the Caribbean, Gabriel de Clieu took coffee seedlings to Martinique. Those sprouts flourished, and there were 18,680 coffee trees in Martinique 50 years later, allowing coffee cultivation to spread to Saint-Domingue (Haiti), Mexico, and other Caribbean islands. Starting in 1734, the French territory of Saint-Domingue cultivated coffee, producing half the world's coffee by 1788.

So, the correct answer is option (d), ‘Asia minor ’.

Note:
In 1582, through the Dutch koffie, borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish kahve, borrowed in turn from the Arabic qahwa, the word 'coffee' entered the English language. Originally, the Arabic word qahwa referred to a form of wine, whose etymology is given as derived from the verb qahā by Arab lexicographers in reference to the reputation of the drink as an appetite suppressant.