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= How Tea Came To England =


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 * ~  The British Empire was the greatest empire in thw worlds history, and during the 17th and 18th century it was the strongest superpower in the world 1. Just like many other European superpowers, The British Empire comprised many colonies, and because of this they had acsess to a lot of exclusive products from abroad. Despite this, they were not the first one to bring tea in to Europe. The first box of tea in Europe was registreted in Amsterdam around 1610, and the Dutch were also to bring tea in to England with their merchant ships in 1652. This first batch of tea was green tea from China 2.

 Tea conqured England quickly, but just like coffee and cocoa, tea was a rare and exotic new product, and in the beginning drinking tea was as plesure of few. Princess Catherine if Braganza was Portuguese married Charles 2., could delight here self with not only a cup of tea, but she was also the one who first brought the habit of drinking tea througout the day 3. At this time coffiehouses were very populare in Britain, and when the China tea was introduced here, together with the royal habit, it quickly became a success througout the country.From this time tea became a national passion, and by 1750 it was the principal drink of all social classes in Britain.

By the end of this century the demand for tea had increased so much, despite the price, that the supply had to be multiplied. The Brtish Empire had many colonies, and one of th em were India, where they established large tea plantations at the change of the 18th and 19th century( . At this time // The East India Company // had monopoly on the tea trading, and it was by ships tea was brought into England. The sort of tea also changed from green to black during this time, because the black tea kept it's aromas better during the long shipment.

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