The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis (1857). The history of coffee dates back to the 15th century, and possibly earlier with a number of reports and legends surrounding its first use. The native (undomesticated) origin of Coffee bean is thought to have been Ethiopia.
Coffee beans were first domesticated by the Incas, who domesticated the coffee plant over five thousand years ago. These days, coffee beans are grown anywhere from Brazil. Ecuador, and Indonesia, all the way down to small communities in Costa Rica. Coffee beans are produced from a coffee plant, a large bush, or a plant.
From the Middle East, coffee drinking spread to Italy, then to the rest of Europe, and coffee plants were transported by the Dutch to the East Indies and to the Americas. Similarly, coffee was banned by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church some time before the 18th century.
As word moved east and coffee reached the Arabian peninsula, it began a journey which would bring these beans across the globe. Coffee cultivation and trade began on the Arabian Peninsula. By the 15th century, coffee was being grown in the Yemeni district of Arabia and by the 16th century it was known in Persia, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey.
The mostly cropped variety in Piura, as well as in most of the Occidental Hemisphere, is the Arabic coffee (Coffea arabica), coming from Ethiopia and Yemen (Arabic Peninsula), where is supposed it was domesticated 20 centuries ago.
· Here’s what fruits and vegetables looked like before we domesticated them. Wild watermelon. Alvaro/Wikimedia Commons. … Modern watermelon. Wikimedia Commons. … Wild banana. Genetic Literacy Project. … Modern banana. Domiriel/Flickr Creative Commons. … Wild eggplant. Genetic Literacy Project. … Modern eggplant. … Wild carrot …
· 7 Quick Takes about Really, Really Domesticated Animals, Cackling Over Hand Towels, and Almost Catching Spiderman on Camera It’s 7 Quick Takes Friday! How was your week? … And it gave me permission to pare down the 20 coffee mugs crammed into the cupboard. HELLO WE DON’T EVEN DRINK COFFEE.
The first domesticated plants was probably rice or corn. Chinese farmers where cultivating rice as early as 7500BC. Agriculture enabled people to produce surplus food. They could use this extra food when crops failed or trade it for other goods. Food surpluses allowed people to work at tasks unrelated to farming.
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