In ancient times, Arabs first dried and cooked coffee beans and drank the juice as stomach medicine, believing that it would help digestion. Later, it was found that coffee also had a refreshing effect. At the same time, because Muslims are forbidden to drink alcohol, coffee is used to replace alcoholic beverages and is often used as a refreshing drink. /kloc-After the 5th century, Muslims who went to Mecca brought coffee back to their places of residence, and coffee gradually spread to Egypt, Syria, Iran and Turkey. Coffee entered Europe thanks to the Ottoman Empire in Turkey at that time. Because the Ottoman army addicted to coffee went west to Europe and stayed there for several years, when the army finally retreated, it left a lot of materials, including coffee beans. People in Vienna and Paris can use these coffee beans and cooking experience gained from Turks to develop European coffee culture. War was originally aggression and destruction, but unexpectedly brought about cultural exchanges and even integration, which was unexpected by the rulers.
Westerners have been familiar with coffee for 300 years However, in the East, coffee has been popularized as a drink to all levels of society for a long time. The earliest and most accurate time for coffee to appear is the 8th century BC, but as early as Homer's works (Greek poet, the year of birth and death is controversial, and the more authoritative statement is that he was born in 744 BC) and many ancient Arab legends, a magical, black, bitter and powerful drink has been described. Around 10, Avicenna (980- 1037) was one of the most outstanding masters in the ancient Islamic world, a philosopher, a doctor and a theorist. ) Use coffee as a medicine to treat diseases. There is also a strange story from15th century. It is said that a Yemeni shepherd saw a group of goats picking red berries from the bushes. Soon these goats became restless and excited. The shepherd reported this to a monk, who cooked some berries and refined them into bitterness.
Although coffee was discovered in the Middle East, the coffee tree originated in Kafa, Africa, which is now Ethiopia. From here, coffee spread to Yemen, Arabia and Egypt. It is in Egypt that coffee develops extremely rapidly and is rapidly popularized in people's daily life.
By the16th century, early merchants had sold coffee in Europe, and coffee, as a new drink, was introduced into western customs and life. Most of the coffee exported to the European market comes from Alexandria and Smyrna. However, with the increase of market demand, the high tariffs imposed by import and export ports and the enhancement of people's knowledge in the field of coffee tree planting, dealers and scientists began to try to transplant coffee to other countries. The Dutch transplanted coffee trees in their overseas colonies (Batavia and Java, "Batavia is now the old name of Jakarta, Indonesia"), and the French transplanted coffee trees in Martinique (located in Latin America) in 1723, and then in the Antilles (located in the West Indies); Later, British, Spanish and Portuguese began to occupy tropical coffee growing areas in Asia and America.
1727, coffee was planted in northern Brazil. However, the bad weather conditions gradually moved this crop to other areas, first in Rio de Janeiro, and finally in Sao Paulo and Minas (about 1800- 1850), where coffee found the most ideal growing environment. Coffee was grown here until it became the most important economic source in Brazil.
It was during the period from 1740 to 1850 that coffee cultivation reached its highest popularity in Central and South America.
Although coffee was born in Africa, relatively speaking, coffee cultivation and household consumption were introduced in modern times. In fact, it was Europeans who brought coffee back to their country of origin and introduced it to their colonies, where coffee flourished due to favorable land and climate conditions.