Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7
Chapter 30: Tea
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1. The origin of tea is in China.
2. Samuel Pepys wrote the first account of tea in England.
3. Catherine of Braganza married King Charles II.
4. King Charles II got married in 1662.
5. Catherine of Braganza is the daughter of King John IV of Portugal.
6. The Sons of Liberty dumped the tea out of East India Company boats in the Boston Harbor.
7. The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16th, 1773.
8. The Earl Grey Tea was blended because the acidity of the bergamot countered the hardness of the water on his Northumberland Estate.
9. The Earl Grey Tea was named after Charles Grey, the Second Earl Grey, who was the Prime Minister of Britain from 1830-1834.
10. Charles Grey's Administration was responsible for the Reform Act of 1832, abolition of slavery in the British Empire and the removal of the East India Company.
11. True, the rise in tea drinking in Britain was in large part driven by women, who were at the time largely excluded from the all-male environment of the coffeehouse.
12. The trade in fine China in Britain was that porcelain teapots and cookery were imported with tea. The tea and the porcelain were sold together.
13. Josiah Wedgwood introduced new methods into pottery-making in Stoke-on-Trent, Britain.
14. Answers will vary
15. Tea was sold in China in the 18th century at trading posts established on the coast of Canton, now Guangdong.
16. Hongs was the name of Chinese merchant houses.
17. The only way the East India Company could pay the Chinese Government for tea was in gold or silver bullion.
18. China did not have a demand for foreign goods at that time.
19. The British East India engage in war with the French East India Company because the British East India company wanted to control the territory of India and Bengal.
20. Britain gained control of Bengal in the Battle of Plassey in 1757.
21. The French East India Company controlled the opium trade before 1757 in India.
22. Opium smoking was widespread in China in the 1750s.
23. The import of opium into China was not legal at this time.
24. Opium smoking was widespread in China because the ban of importing opium was weakly enforced.
25. This is how the opium trade work in the 1750s: 1) opium produced in Bengal by British India Company, 2) British India Company sold the opium to third-party traders in Calcutta, 3) Third party traders smuggled opium into China, 4) Third party traders delivered profits back to British East India Company in Bengal or use profits to buy tea for the company.
26. Answers will vary
27. The British East India Company at this time provided 10% of the entire tax revenue of Britain.
28. The British won the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 against a united French & Spanish ships armada.
29. The First Opium War was fought in 1839-1842.
30. The result of the First Opium War was that China had to give the British Hong Kong and allow the British to trade in more of their ports.
31. The Second Opium War was fought in 1856-1860.
32. The result of the Second Opium War was that China allowed Britain more commercial access into the country and made opium legal.
33. The tea clipper ships were built in 1840-1869.
34. Tea Clippers were built to carry opium to China and tea to Britain.
35. The Suez Canal was built in 1869.
36. Research was being conducted in 1787 to cultivate tea outside of China by Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London and at the East India Company botanic gardens in Calcutta.
37. In 1833 they found tea trees growing wild in Brahmaputra River in Assam Valley, the region of southeastern India that borders China and Burma.
38. Chabua Tea Estate was the name of the first tea garden.
39. Tea Estates was another name for tea gardens.
40. At the end of the East India Company monopoly on the tea trade in the Assam Valley, Darjeeling in the Himalayan foothills of West Bengal and in the Nilgiri Region of the Western Ghats in Southern India began to develop tea estates.
41. The East India Company got into financial trouble by corruption and financial mismanagement.
42. The East India Company stop ruling in India after the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
43. Char Wallahs is the name of tea sellers in India.
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7
Chapter 30: Tea
Go to Questions
Go to Directory of Fifty Foods That Changed the Course of History
Go to Directory of Articles & Books
Answer Key
1. The origin of tea is in China.
2. Samuel Pepys wrote the first account of tea in England.
3. Catherine of Braganza married King Charles II.
4. King Charles II got married in 1662.
5. Catherine of Braganza is the daughter of King John IV of Portugal.
6. The Sons of Liberty dumped the tea out of East India Company boats in the Boston Harbor.
7. The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16th, 1773.
8. The Earl Grey Tea was blended because the acidity of the bergamot countered the hardness of the water on his Northumberland Estate.
9. The Earl Grey Tea was named after Charles Grey, the Second Earl Grey, who was the Prime Minister of Britain from 1830-1834.
10. Charles Grey's Administration was responsible for the Reform Act of 1832, abolition of slavery in the British Empire and the removal of the East India Company.
11. True, the rise in tea drinking in Britain was in large part driven by women, who were at the time largely excluded from the all-male environment of the coffeehouse.
12. The trade in fine China in Britain was that porcelain teapots and cookery were imported with tea. The tea and the porcelain were sold together.
13. Josiah Wedgwood introduced new methods into pottery-making in Stoke-on-Trent, Britain.
14. Answers will vary
15. Tea was sold in China in the 18th century at trading posts established on the coast of Canton, now Guangdong.
16. Hongs was the name of Chinese merchant houses.
17. The only way the East India Company could pay the Chinese Government for tea was in gold or silver bullion.
18. China did not have a demand for foreign goods at that time.
19. The British East India engage in war with the French East India Company because the British East India company wanted to control the territory of India and Bengal.
20. Britain gained control of Bengal in the Battle of Plassey in 1757.
21. The French East India Company controlled the opium trade before 1757 in India.
22. Opium smoking was widespread in China in the 1750s.
23. The import of opium into China was not legal at this time.
24. Opium smoking was widespread in China because the ban of importing opium was weakly enforced.
25. This is how the opium trade work in the 1750s: 1) opium produced in Bengal by British India Company, 2) British India Company sold the opium to third-party traders in Calcutta, 3) Third party traders smuggled opium into China, 4) Third party traders delivered profits back to British East India Company in Bengal or use profits to buy tea for the company.
26. Answers will vary
27. The British East India Company at this time provided 10% of the entire tax revenue of Britain.
28. The British won the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 against a united French & Spanish ships armada.
29. The First Opium War was fought in 1839-1842.
30. The result of the First Opium War was that China had to give the British Hong Kong and allow the British to trade in more of their ports.
31. The Second Opium War was fought in 1856-1860.
32. The result of the Second Opium War was that China allowed Britain more commercial access into the country and made opium legal.
33. The tea clipper ships were built in 1840-1869.
34. Tea Clippers were built to carry opium to China and tea to Britain.
35. The Suez Canal was built in 1869.
36. Research was being conducted in 1787 to cultivate tea outside of China by Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London and at the East India Company botanic gardens in Calcutta.
37. In 1833 they found tea trees growing wild in Brahmaputra River in Assam Valley, the region of southeastern India that borders China and Burma.
38. Chabua Tea Estate was the name of the first tea garden.
39. Tea Estates was another name for tea gardens.
40. At the end of the East India Company monopoly on the tea trade in the Assam Valley, Darjeeling in the Himalayan foothills of West Bengal and in the Nilgiri Region of the Western Ghats in Southern India began to develop tea estates.
41. The East India Company got into financial trouble by corruption and financial mismanagement.
42. The East India Company stop ruling in India after the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
43. Char Wallahs is the name of tea sellers in India.
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