History of Coffee
The history of coffee, as a famous beverage, probably originated in Ethiopia, in the province of Kaffa, but that is not absolutely settled. The most prevalent legend has it that a shepherd of Abyssinia has noticed the tonic effect of this shrub on the goats that had eaten.
Its culture is spreading into neighboring Arabia, where his popularity has certainly benefited from the prohibition of alcohol in Islam. It is then called K’hawah, which means invigorating. The archaeological data available today suggest that coffee was not “domesticated” before the fifteenth century the process of preparing the drink, long and complex, may explain the late discovery of the virtues of coffee seeds At first sight unattractive. Recent discoveries (1996) a British archaeological team, which remain to be confirmed, suggest the possibility of consumption that began in the twelfth century in Arabia.
Muslims introduced coffee in Persia, Egypt, North Africa and Turkey, where the first coffee shop, Kiva Han, opened in 1475 in Constantinople (now Istanbul), under Ottoman rules. Coffee consumption took off across the Arab world. There are a thousand cafes in Cairo in 1630.
The history of coffee continues when coffee arrived in Europe around 1600 by the Venetian merchants, who did trading with muslim’s traders (mostly from Ottoman region). It advises the Pope Clement VIII to ban coffee because it represents a threat to unbelievers, regarding the fact that coffee comes from Muslim’s world. Having tasted it instead named the new drink, saying only to let the infidels pleasure of this drink would be a shame.
The use of coffee did not enter Western Europe until the middle of the second half of the seventeenth century. It made fairly rapid progress, and to satisfy them he also had to use, despite their high cost, with beans from Arabia, who received when Europeans called Mocha coffee, because it is from this port Red Sea they were exported. These coffees came from Suez to Alexandria where they were taken by ships from Venice, Genoa and Marseilles, to be distributed throughout Europe.
Towards the 1650s, cafes opened in Oxford and London. Liberal ideas are born, philosophers and scholars that appear in it, around pamphlets and libels. In 1676, agitation encourages the prosecutor to order the closure of cafes, citing the crimes of treason against King Charles II. The reactions are such that the edict of closure shall be revoked. There are over two thousand pubs in 1700 in the United Kingdom in full British financial revolution. The famous insurance company Lloyd’s of London is originally a cafe founded in 1688: Lloyd’s Coffee House. The London Stock Exchange, in its modern version, also born in a café, the famous Jonathan’s Coffee House, where brokers are found and where Holland was born the first list of actions.
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