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The History of Tea

A sneak peak into

Shannon: A myth from China

1. 2500 years ago
2. After more than 70 attempts to find medicinal herbs (and getting poisoned on the way).
1. He was boiling some water to make leaves edible/drinkable, and 1 fell off on his pot which made the water taste good.
3. People realized that:
1. Tea Leaves + Moisture + Heat = Delicious beverage
4. Process: Compressed the Tea Leaves into harden bricks, Then broke it, and then boil it.

During the Tang Dynasty (VIII century) improved the technology of TEA.

• It began to be considered a hallmark of social status
• Emperors and Peasants were drinking tea
• Tea spread with the help of Buddhism
• Monks distributed tea as part of their lifestyle throughout continental land.
• People in
• Middle East
• Mongolia
• Korea
• Japan
• Siberia
• Were embracing tea and adapting it to their cultures.

Portugal and The Dutch, and then the English

Europe was battling to have the Tea Commerce on its hands

1661

Queen Catherine of Braganza married King Charles II

1670

All fashionable society drank tea: Aristocrats, Nobles, The Clergy

1800

• The Chinese still had the Tea market as a monopoly.
• Tea was traded with silver alone.
• British thought that the besiness was not lucrative enough

1839

Massive public health issue, since 1/3 adults were addicits

1839

Trigger the 1st Opium War

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

"[...] who will not trust in what he can't see. How much have you seen, eh, Thiefleft? Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there? And Submarines? Huh? Also hailstones, baseballs, pagodas? Goldmines? kangaroos? [...] And the past, dis it happen? And the future will it come? Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble [...]"

"El devenir" is just an intricate chain of concatenated events that will endlessly last.And History is the study of those events.

Thank you so much for listening !