Tea and the British Empire

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ChinaHuang He RiverYangtze River MongoliaGobi Desert TibetHimalayan Mts. India Japan MacaoSouth China Sea Strait of Malacca Dutch East Indies/ Indonesia Netherlands Great Britan London BostonLegandGobi Desert: 13 Colonies: Black BorderSpread of Tea: The first cup of tea was brewed in Chinaby the emperer Shen Nung, who reignedthroughout 2767-2697 BCE.Tea had been drunk in Japan in the early sixth century but by the fourteenth century tea had become widespread throughout the society.From the Netherlands, Teareached France in the1630s and finally Englandin the 1650s.After the first tea reports in what is now Indosnesia, in 1669,tea slowly became more widely available. In 1773, the Boston tea party occured,in which protesters emptied three shiploads of tea into the Boston Harbor.
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