Originally, the word Qahwah was linked to wine, but over time it was used to refer to the caffeinated beverage. Like a wild game of telephone, the word Qahwah was passed on to Turkish, which became Kahveh, then Kahveh became Koffie in Dutch. Until eventually, it became coffee in English.

But many also say that it was Kaldi, an Ethiopian goatherd, who discovered the coffee plant by noticing one of his goats chewing on a couple of berries. Steiger, L.; Nagal, C.; etal. (2002). "AFLP analysis of genetic diversity within and among Coffea arabica cultivars". Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 105 (2–3): 209–215. doi: 10.1007/s00122-002-0939-8. PMID 12582521. S2CID 12303865. Archived from the original on 27 November 2019 . Retrieved 29 December 2018. The drink’s association with Islam did not bode well for the European Catholics so they tried to pressure poor Pope Clement VIII into banning the drink for its Satanic implications. Early modern coffee culture and history in the Islamic world". Shakespeare & Beyond. 14 May 2021 . Retrieved 7 December 2021.By 1414, the plant was known in Mecca, and in the early 1500s was spreading to the Mameluke Sultanate of Egypt and North Africa from the Yemeni port of Mocha. [7] [11] Associated with Sufism, myriad coffee houses grew up in Cairo (Egypt) around the religious University of the Azhar. These coffee houses also opened in Syria, especially in the cosmopolitan city of Aleppo, [11] and then in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, in 1554. [11] Coffee was also noted in Aleppo by the German physician botanist Leonhard Rauwolf, the first European to mention it, as chaube, in 1573; Rauwolf was closely followed by descriptions from other European travellers. [14] Coffeepot (cafetière "campanienne"), part of a service, 1836, hard-paste porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art Rice, Robert A. (1999). "A Place Unbecoming: The Coffee Farm of Northern Latin America". Geographical Review. 89 (4): 554–579. doi: 10.2307/216102. JSTOR 216102. PMID 20662186. Java has become another household term for coffee. Eventually, the coffee plant made its way to both Sumatra and Celebes, drastically increasing Indonesia’s coffee-growing capacity. Into The West: Coffee Invades Europe

The first step in Europeans' wresting the means of production was effected by Nicolaes Witsen, the enterprising burgomaster of Amsterdam and member of the governing board of the Dutch East India Company who urged Joan van Hoorn, the Dutch governor at Batavia that some coffee plants be obtained at the export port of Mocha in Yemen, the source of Europe's supply, and established in the Dutch East Indies; [89] the project of raising many plants from the seeds of the first shipment met with such success that the Dutch East India Company was able to supply Europe's demand with "Java coffee" by 1719. [90] Encouraged by their success, they soon had coffee plantations in Ceylon, Sumatra and other Sunda islands. [91] Coffee trees were soon grown under glass at the Hortus Botanicus of Leiden, whence slips were generously extended to other botanical gardens. Dutch representatives at the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Utrecht presented their French counterparts with a coffee plant, which was grown on at the Jardin du Roi, predecessor of the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris. Confidence is key to a great morning. 72. "Coffee? First let me sing you the song of my people. BRBRBRBRBR." Cowen, Brian (2005). The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse. Connecticut: Yale University Press. p.49. RELATED: This Is What Happens When You Drink Coffee Before You Work Out 79. "They may take away my sugar, alcohol, dairy, grains and beans, but they shall never take away my coffee!"

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