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Coffee was introduced into Europe

Large-scale artificial cultivation and drinking coffee in the Arab region, at that time there was the most prosperous port in the world, the scale of maritime trade here is amazing, and the merchant ships around the world have brought unlimited business opportunities. the coffee that has been popular in the Arab region has naturally become the beloved of merchants from all countries, especially those who have tasted coffee, and their sweet and fragrant taste makes them infatuated and nostalgic. At that time, Europeans called coffee "Arabian wine", so the coffee trade came into being. at that time, merchants in the Republic of Venice first brought coffee to Europe from Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey), which borders Arabia.

The popularity of coffee in Europe is not plain sailing, which has experienced a lot of twists and turns, until now there are still many short stories about coffee, which sounds meaningful.

The Pope's coffee.

When coffee was first introduced into Europe, some diehard Catholics denounced it as a "pagan drink" from the point of view of their traditional religious exclusion. In many countries, coffee was once banned and even demonized. With the debate about the pros and cons of coffee, which even alarmed the Vatican, Pope Clement praised the taste and effectiveness of coffee and immediately rectified it after tasting a cup of coffee. The Pope said: "although it is the devil's drink, it is delicious." It is a pity that this kind of drink is only monopolized by pagans. " Since then, Catholics have been given formal permission to drink coffee. Since then, coffee has rightly entered the life of Europeans and gradually become the favorite and most widely consumed drink in Europe.

Louis XV, who did it himself.

King Louis XV of France can be said to be a desolate guy. It was his incompetence and greed that led to the disparity between the rich and the poor in the anti-drug campaign in French society, and finally led to the outbreak of the French Revolution that changed the history of France and even Europe in the era of Louis XVI. But Louis XV's love for coffee is a story in the history of coffee development.

It is said that Louis XV is almost obsessed with coffee. He not only likes to make coffee himself, but also has a lot of research on the cultivation and variety of coffee. He chose the best coffee trees, planted and maintained them in his garden, and they survived and could be said to be fruitful, harvesting six pounds of coffee beans a year. Louis XV carefully baked and processed the coffee beans picked from his own coffee tree for his own enjoyment, with an astonishing degree of exquisite attention.

The stubborn King of Sweden

When coffee was widely spread in Europe, despite the pope's directive to drink coffee, there were still some stubborn people who could not accept the drink, thinking that if a drink could excite and make people happy, it must be demonized, or a deadly poison in disguise.

In the second half of the eighteenth century, King Gustav III of Sweden was convinced that caffeine was a deadly drug. In order to find enough evidence for his opinion, he carefully designed an experiment: one death row prisoner drank cup after cup of coffee to death; let another death row prisoner drink cup after cup of tea. Unfortunately, the two doctors in charge of the experiment died first, and Gustav III himself died of the last murder in Swedish history. As for the two death row prisoners who drank tea, the one who drank tea died at the age of 83, leaving another death row prisoner to continue to drink his coffee alone until he died of a disease.

Ironically, Gustav III's well-designed experiment not only failed to prove the toxicity of coffee, but proved the benefits of coffee in another way.

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