| Coffee have been a part of culture for over one | | | | Arabian government prohibited the transportation |
| thousand years. The history of coffee widely | | | | of the plant out of the Moslem nations, so the |
| varies according to the source due to the length | | | | actual spread of coffee was started illegally.In the |
| of time as well as the blurring of truth that | | | | 17th century, Italian traders introduced coffees to |
| sometimes occurs.This is especially true when | | | | the West and changed the history of coffee |
| something as powerful as coffee is involved, as | | | | forever. Many Christians believed that coffee was |
| coffees have brought people much wealth and | | | | the drink of the devil.But in Italy, Pope Clement |
| prosperity throughout the history of | | | | VIII drank and endorsed coffee against the |
| coffee.Coffees were discovered around 850 A.D. | | | | advice of his advisors who wanted it to be |
| in the part of Africa now known as Ethiopia. | | | | considered part of the infidel threat. Because of |
| According to one story that has been passed | | | | his endorsement of coffee, it became acceptable |
| down through the generations, a sheep herder | | | | as a Christian beverage and spread throughout |
| named Kaldi discovered coffee as he tended his | | | | the West.Coffee Houses began opening in the |
| sheep. He noted that his sheep became | | | | mid-17th century in the Western world. The first |
| extremely active after eating the red cherries | | | | coffee house opened in Italy in 1645, in England in |
| from a plant as they went from one pasture to | | | | 1652, in Paris in 1672, and in Berlin in 1721.In 1668, |
| another.He ate a few of the cherries himself, and | | | | Edward Lloyd's coffee house opened in England |
| was soon as overactive as his herd. The story | | | | and eventually became Lloyd's of London, the |
| goes on to say that a monk passed by and | | | | best-known insurance company in the world. By |
| scolded him for "partaking of the devil's fruit." | | | | this time as well, coffee had replaced beer as |
| However, the monks soon found themselves | | | | New York's City's favorite breakfast beverage.In |
| eating the same fruit to help them stay awake | | | | the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the Dutch |
| for their prayers.Originally, the coffee plant grew | | | | became a prominent force in the coffee industry |
| naturally in Ethiopia. But once the people of Arabia | | | | with a coffee plant smuggled out of the Arab |
| became enthralled with coffee and transplanted | | | | port of Mocha. The Dutch cultivated coffee |
| plants to Arabia, coffees were monopolized by | | | | commercially in Ceylon and in their East Indian |
| them.Later, countries beyond Arabia whose | | | | colony of Java, which came to be the source of |
| inhabitants believed coffee to be a delicacy and | | | | coffees' nickname. However, the French stole a |
| guarded its secret with the greatest care began | | | | seedling and transported it to Martinique. |
| to siphon off coffee plants as was possible.The | | | | |