a globally interesting topic, but wtf does a social geographer does? is he saying positive things about the planet and our civilization? what? I had for some years the misconception of accepting "logic only", considering beauty and visuals as not relevant/ not valuable, here a proof of the importance of having proper data recollection (no generalization fallacies, no only one's individual opinion) mixed with a clearer way of presenting that data
The history of tea - Shunan Teng Used since 6000 thousand years ago, at the beginning eaten as vegetable with green porridge New way of preparing it discovered: heat tea-leaves + pulverize + water = Matcha Tea art existed just as the contemporary espresso art (draws in the coffee cream). Dutch carried tea to Europe, which was a huge income for China, then Queen Catherine of Berganza of Portugal (heavy tea drinker) married King Charles II of U, she popularized the tea to UK which then propagated the culture to all their colonies. Tea 10 times the price of coffee and Britain paid with silver which was too expensive... British started trading with Opium, which poisoned China population. The Opium war starts, in 1842 Chin dynasty loses to UK (Hong Kong is seized). China will have to keep trading in unreasonable terms, but still British wanted more, they sent spies to smuggle tea trees and create a production in India (which is nowadays one of the big...