When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. History of tea - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tea

    The Russian ambassador tried the drink; he did not care for it and rejected the offer, delaying tea's Russian introduction by fifty years. By 1689, tea was regularly imported from China to Russia via a caravan of hundreds of camels traveling the year-long journey, making it a precious commodity at the time.

  3. Maté - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maté

    Companies such as Cabrales from Mar del Plata and Establecimiento Las Marías produce tea bags for export to Europe. [35] Maté is consumed as an ice tea in various regions of Brazil, in both artisanal and industrial forms. This is a bottle of industrialized maté ice tea, bought from a local supermarket in Rio de Janeiro.

  4. Etymology of tea - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_tea

    The different words for tea fall into two main groups: "te-derived" and "cha-derived" (Cantonese and Mandarin). [2]Most notably through the Silk Road; [25] global regions with a history of land trade with central regions of Imperial China (such as North Asia, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East) pronounce it along the lines of 'cha', whilst most global maritime regions ...

  5. History of the Spanish language - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../History_of_the_Spanish_language

    The largest such group was the Castilians, whose language became Spanish. The standard Spanish language is also called Castilian in its original variant, and in order to distinguish it from other languages native to parts of Spain, such as Galician, Catalan, Basque, etc. In its earliest documented form, and up through approximately the 15th ...

  6. Tea - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea

    Canned tea is sold prepared and ready to drink. It was introduced in 1981 in Japan. The first bottled tea was introduced by an Indonesian tea company, PT. Sinar Sosro in 1969 with the brand name Teh Botol Sosro (or Sosro bottled tea). [108] In 1983, Swiss-based Bischofszell Food Ltd. was the first company to bottle iced tea on an industrial ...

  7. Spice trade - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_trade

    The Silk Road (red) and spice trade routes (blue).. The spice trade involved historical civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe.Spices, such as cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, nutmeg, star anise, clove, and turmeric, were known and used in antiquity and traded in the Eastern World. [1]

  8. The Secret History of How Coffee Took Over the World - AOL

    www.aol.com/mocha-java-secret-history-coffee...

    For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us

  9. Spain in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain_in_the_Middle_Ages

    Spain in the Middle Ages is a period in the history of Spain that began in the 5th century following the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ended with the beginning of the early modern period in 1492. The history of Spain is marked by waves of conquerors who brought their distinct cultures to the peninsula.