Grounds for Revolution: the Stimulating Story of How Coffee Shaped the World
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The History of Coffee in Europe
A handful of europeans had come across this novel new beverage while travelling in turkey an the arab world. Europeans wanted this fardy bean for themselves, but they couldn't get enough from yemen. Eventually, somehow, and there's a couple of probably mythical stories about this too, the dutch smuggled it out and planted coffee in their colony,. java, an island in what's now in danesia. Growing coffee on java meant that european had access to a lot more coffee. This is why coffee is still sometimes called java to day.
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