Book: Fifty Foods That Changed The Course of History
Author: Bill Price
ISBN: 978-1-77085-427-7
Chapter 30: Tea
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Questions
1.
Where is the origin of tea?
2.
Who wrote the first account of tea in England?
3.
Who married King Charles II?
4.
In what year did King Charles II get marry?
5.
Who is the daughter of King John IV of Portugal?
6.
Who dumped the tea out of East India Company boats in the Boston Harbor?
7.
When did the Boston Tea Party happen?
8.
Why was the Earl Grey Tea blended for Charles Grey?
9.
For whom was the Earl Grey named after?
10.
Whose administration is responsible for the Reform Act of 1832, abolition of slavery in the British Empire and the removal of the East India Company?
11.
The rise in tea drinking in Britain was in large part driven by women, who were at the time largely excluded from the all-male environment of the coffeehouse. True or False
12.
What was the trade in fine China in Britain?
13.
Who started to improve pottery making in Britain to compete with China's?
14.
Why didn't the Chinese government allow foreigners from entering mainland China in the 18th century?
15.
Where was tea sold in China in the 18th century?
16.
What was the name of Chinese merchant houses?
17.
There was only one way the East India Company could pay the Chinese Government for tea, what way was that?
18.
In that time period, did China have a demand for foreign goods?
19.
Why did the British East India Company engage in a war with the French East India Company?
20.
In what battle and year did Britain gain control of Bengal?
21.
Who controlled the opium trade before 1757 in India?
22.
When was opium smoking widespread in China?
23.
At that time, was the import of opium into China legal?
24.
Why was opium smoking widespread in China?
25.
How did the opium trade work in 1750s?
26.
Would you consider this current day drug trafficking and money laundering?
27.
At the height in 1800, the British East India Company, how much was it contributing to the entire tax revenue of Britain?
28.
Who won the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805?
29.
When was the first Opium War fought?
30.
What was the result of that first Opium War?
31.
When was the second Opium War fought?
32.
What was the result of the second Opium War?
33.
When were the tea clipper ships built?
34.
Why were these tea clippers ships built?
35.
When was the Suez Canal built?
36.
Where was research being conducted in 1787 to cultivate tea outside of China?
37.
In 1833 they found tea trees growing wild in which valley?
38.
What was the name of the first tea gardens?
39.
What was another name for tea gardens?
40.
At the end of the East India Company monopoly on the tea trade in the Assam Valley, which new region began to develop tea estates?
41.
Why did the East India Company get into financial trouble?
42.
When did the East India Company stop ruling in India?
43.
What are tea sellers called in India?
