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It's probably a lot more to do with the fact that peppers grow well in hot climates. 

The growing season in countries further from the equator is a lot shorter, and peppers take quite a while to reach maturity. It would have been too short for any sort of decent pepper crop in the days before decent greenhouses, which is why you won't typically find them in, say, Canadian or Russian or English traditional cuisine.
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