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