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lead to the Spanish Empire's massive cultivation projects in that region, unfortunately bolstering the slave trade || take place ||
 * Politics: || Control over coffee trade routes and coffee growing areas became hugely important to nations like Great Britain, Spain, and the Dutch Republic. ||
 * Economics: || became a major import for many European countries, and the discovery that it could grow well in the Caribbean and Central America
 * Religion: || Many Muslims, particularly Sufis, adopted coffee as an integral part of the prayer lifestyle. Much debate over the religious use of coffee for many years, if coffee impaired the mind (sobriety) or not. was approved by the pope ||
 * Society: || Coffee houses became a popular spot for intellects, politicians, philosophers, scholars, and the average person. People came to these coffee houses in order to socialize, catch the daily news, debate, ext. became very popular in london and france. ||
 * Intellect: || With the advent of coffee houses, people had a safe alternative to bars, where heightened senses replaced inebriation and sober discussion could
 * Arts: ||  ||

-Coffee houses became so popular that they could be seen just about on every block in London

TIMELINE:

14th century: Coffee began to be cultivated by the Arabs. Al though, this first interaction is unknown Mid 15th Century: Coffee used in Yemen by Sufi Muslims. It was a religious drink that helped them with their nightly rituals and gave way to great ideas, for wine was seen as unholy, coffee was found as a sober alternative.

1511: coffee was put of trial by governor Kha'ir Beg. Coffee, he thought, was a negative intoxicate to the muslim community. He ruled against the usage of coffee. However, the higher officials overturned his ruling by stoping the persecution of venders.

16th Century: Coffee spreads from Yemen to other parts of the Arab world, and to parts of Europe

1605: Pope Clement VII tried coffee before it becomes a commodity in europe, and approves it for christian consumption.

1660's: There is a coffee house atmosphere forming. Coffee becomes widely popular in England.

1670's: A debate forms other weither coffee is safe and good for England.

1675: King Charles II put a ban on the consumption of coffee and the use of coffee house for many political raticls would met in coffee houses and he feared they over throw him. Although, eventually with much riot and disregard for the law, the king had to lift the ban.

1690's: Dutch began to establish better plantations of coffee, taking control over coffee trade with the african/middle east countries.

1962: International Coffee Agreement signed, world rejoices



Drawing of one of the first coffee trees in Yemen

QUOTES:

"Those who drank coffee instead of alcohol began the day alert and stimulated, rather then relaxed and milgy inebriated, and the quality and quantity of their work improved. Coffee came to be regarded as the very antithesis of alcohol, sobering rather then intoxicating, heightening perception rather then dulling the senses and blotting out reality." (pg. 135)

"When a seventeenth-century european businessman wanted to hear the latest business news, follow commodity prices, keep up with political gossip, find out what other people thought of a new book, or stay abreast of the latest scientific developments, all he had to do was walk into a coffeehouse." (pg. 151)

"The coffeehouse sprit of innovation and experiment extended into the financial sphere too, giving rise to new business models.." (pg 163)

"but coffee's opponents could not have been more wrong, for coffeehouses became popular venues for academic discussion, particularly among those who took an interest in the progress of science, or "natural philosophy" as it was known at the time." (pg 158)

what typical coffee houses in London looked like.

CITATIONS:

//Transfer and Spread //. Digital image. //National History Museum //. N.p., 2012. Web. 22 Aug. 2013. .

Schafel, Erik. // The Business World of London's Exchange Alley Cica 1746 //. Digital image. // Georgianlondon.com //. N.p., n.d. Web.

It is a drawling of what many of the london coffee houses looked like. Digital image. //Seattle's Big Blog //. Www.blogseattlepi.com, Apr. 2011. Web. 22 Aug. 2013.

//Koffi-boom //. Digital image. //Coffee History //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. Caffesociety.co.uk, n.d. Web. 22 Aug. 2013.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Standage, Tom. "Coffee in the Age of Reason." // <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">A History of the World in 6 Glasses //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. New York: Walker, 2006. 133-72. Print.