Keila Delgado
Pages read: 133-165
In the next few chapters of A History of World in 6 glasses, we start to talk
about the origins of coffee, how it developed and how it left impacts on our
history.
Coffee originated in Arabia, and affected the country of Europe greatly. In
Europe, people would start of their day with breakfast and some "light bear" or
wine. Instead of waking them up, it would only leave them feeling relaxed and
dizzy. When coffee started being discovered it was basically the antidote of
alcohol. Instead of waking up in the morning and feeling woozy over wine or
beer, people started drinking coffee to stimulate their senses and make them
more alert. Coffee houses opened in Britain in the 1650's and in Amsterdam
during the 1660's. As coffee grew, Europe became worrying about their dependency on this
foreign product and how to establish their own products
The first to compete were the Dutch, who gained control of the island Java, which is now
Indonesia. Within a few years, coffee was shipped directly from java to all sorts of places.
The Arabs could not compare with the prices and certainly enough, the Dutch were granted
the control of the coffee market. As you can see, coffee has left great impacts all various parts
of the world and continues to be refreshening to the start of peoples mornings.
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