The history of coffee begins in the 9th century. It is thought to have originated in the highlands of Ethiopia and spread to the rest of the world via Egypt and Europe.[4] The word coffee is derived from the Arabic word قهوة Qah'wa, over Ottoman Turkish Kahve, which originally meant wine or other intoxicating liquors. Partly due to the Islamic prohibition on drinking alcohol, preparing and drinking coffee became an important social ritual. In the 15th century, Muslims introduced coffee in Persia, Egypt, northern Africa and Turkey, where the first cafeteria, Kiva Han, opened in 1475 in Constantinople. The stimulant effect of drinking coffee caused it to be forbidden among orthodox and conservative imams in Mecca in 1511 and in Cairo in 1532 by a theological court. In Egypt, coffeehouses and warehouses containing coffee cherries were sacked. But the product's popularity, particularly among intellectuals, led to the reversal of this decision in 1524 by an order of the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Selim I.[5]
Best think make you agitated,feel fresh and alot of energy effect of the cafeine.(but usualy lack of acuracy)
Bad think make you addicted,and after the good feeling gone you feel exhausted and bad mood.And since coffee mosly drink with sugar and cream/milk they sometime causing some health problem.
2006-10-31 04:00:57
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answered by It's Me! 5
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You always get one long winded responce that says nothing and takes up space...
It was first discovered by a goat herder in Africa, Ethiopia or Sudan when he noticed the goats eating from a shrub and becoming quite overcome with energy, he to chewed on some of the fruit from this bush and found he to was a bit more sprye, he then took some of these seeds home roasted them and ground them in to a powder and drank the liquid they produced, mind you this took years before the Portugese and Spanish, colonizing Africa would find it, and like the English with tea, they then set out to grow it in all there outlying colonys, that is why most of the worlds coffee is grown in Brazil, a former Portugese colony.
2006-10-31 16:49:10
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answered by The Unknown Chef 7
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Mr. John Coffee
it is habit
the donut
2006-10-31 13:31:37
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answered by justmejimw 7
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If you drink too much of it, it'll give you gastritis.
2006-10-31 11:28:20
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answered by Snorty 1
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