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I heard the high tea taxes that Britain imposed on the colonies during the 1700s is the reason
Americans drink coffee today instead of tea like most of Europe
that means tea is responsible for starbucks |
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I've never thought of this, but I must say I do agree. |
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Wow, this is sure a novel theory!
Yes, an amazing number of conflicts were begun over access to tea. The most famous is the Boston Tea
Party, when the U.S. Colonists threw a cargo of tea overboard to protest England’s taxes on the
commodity.
China had cornered the tea-cultivation market by the 8th century, and it spread to Japan, where the
tea ceremony became an important aspects of Buddhism.
The development and colonization of India and Ceylon was chiefly due to the cultivation of and
control of the market for tea by the Dutch and British East India companies. The Boxer Rebellion was
the direct result of the Brits’ all-consuming desire to control the market for tea.
Also, the sugar cane/rum trade in the West Indies was fueled in part by England’s rising demand
for sweeteners for tea. This lead to slavery and brutal repression of slave rebellions there. |
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It helped, in china it was used as currency after it was pressed into bricks. |
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What rubbish only a few things have been caused by tea and thoughts two examples you have given are
probably the only two things that have been caused by tea. Was world war 1 and 2 caused by twinings,
did Darjeeling cause the Indians to rebel against the British, and Celyon cause their to be
terrorists in Sri Lanka and did Lapsong Souchong cause the Chinese to go Communists, No. Tea might
be a very famous thing but it did not cause the change of history since it has been discovered. |
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11 Feb 2008 20:18
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