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The Boston Tea Party LEADS TO → Americans Turn Toward Coffee
Boycotts of taxed tea after the Boston Tea Party led many patriotic Americans to switch to coffee.
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London's First Coffee House ENABLES → Tea Conquers London
London's new coffee houses, opened from 1652, were the venue where Garway and others first sold tea to the public.
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Starbucks Opens in Seattle SPREADS → Global Matcha Craze
Global coffee-house chains led by Starbucks put matcha lattes on menus worldwide, carrying matcha to mass Western audiences.
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Coffee Crosses to the Caribbean FUNDS → The Railway Age
Coffee's spread to the Americas grew into Brazil's coffee economy, whose export earnings financed railways such as the São Paulo Railway (1867) to carry beans to Santos.
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The Great Tea Heist LEADS TO → The Railway Age
The plantation tea industry of Darjeeling and Assam, seeded with Chinese plants and know-how, created freight that justified hill and plantation railways such as the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (1881).
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2000 BCE – 2030 CE
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