The History Of Tea

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Today Tea is the second most popular beverage in the world after water. Global consumption of tea is forecasted to reach 297 billion liters by 2021.
In China, it's sipped from tiny porcelain cups. Tibetans mix it with salt and yak butter. The Japanese whisk it during ceremonies. Russians add lemon. Moroccans use mint. And Americans add a dash of ehh High Fructose Corn Syrup. The Irish and Turks drink it by the bucket load while the call of the Chai Wallah is known across India where they serve it with milk, sugar, and spices.
It was tribute to Chinese Emperors, sustained meditating Buddhist monks, and turned Britain into the deadliest drug lord in history. So what is the history of tea, how has it changed our world, and what does it have to do with Jesus’ Chinese brother? Well, Let's Find Out.
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[@brendenmenardprincestrong3528]

This is Teadious. Get it?

[@maeam]

Oh, Yay! I wish I had money though I wanna support y’all

[@oddish2253]

I hearby claim this uninhabited comment section as a colony of Britain. Long live the queen.

[@tenko5541]

America: oil 👀 British empire: Tea 👀

[@arthas640]

Chinese: technology and synthetic drugs 👀

[@mr.fantastic6568]

Russia: warm ports 👀

[@etherealrose2139]

Texas Tea, bruh

[@adityamakwana612]

it was more like spices for british in india

[@Navin4061]

British empire: Spice

[@xhosagibran370]

“Why should China make a fortune off its own product when the east India company could take fortune instead?”. Aww history in a nutshell.

[@oddish2253]

Honorable East India Company*

[@oddish2253]

@Meme oh yes, proper queen's english.

[@xhosagibran370]

꧂Oddish꧂ 11:39.....

[@jackd.ripper7613]

@@zwartvalk2738 Apparently, capitalization and punctuation aren't required in yours...

[@jackd.ripper7613]

It's no different than any cartel offers: "Plata o plomo?

[@leoli2450]

Fun fact: the japanese tea ceremoney was a slightly adopted version of the Chinese song dynasty's imperial court tea-making process. The very reason that this form of tradition remains nearly unchanged for so long was because it was integrated into the Japanese Buddisim as a spiritual tradition.

[@kiwiprouddavids724]

Not fun facts , Chinese orphanages have kids tied into wooden create things and rooms were babies get left to expire.china is a global criminal organization that steals from other countries and people's ,well slaughtering their own people to keep a few twisted and sick sociopaths in power

[@adrianaslund8605]

5:05 I noticed a mistake! Black tea is not fermented! Its oxidised. Fermented tea is called Puerh and is indeed refered to as "black" tea in China but not in the west. Black tea is called "red" tea in China. Sheng Puerh tea from Yunnan is the best! It makes you feel warm and comfortable. A kind of "high" almost.

[@epicoutdoor5795]

Hi Adrian. I also love Puerh tea, or as my box from Yunnan calls it, Pu-erh tea :) In the broadest sense of speaking, it is acceptable to call enzymatic aging/ breakdown a "fermentation" process. I speak from agricultural background in general. But I agree that Puerh tea is the only true fermented tea!

[@RyanTaylor2000]

Kombucha is also some type of fermented black/green tea

[@adrianaslund8605]

@@RyanTaylor2000 Yes but in that case the liquid is fermented. In Puerh its the leaves themselves. Like tobacco in cigars.

[@kiwiprouddavids724]

Chinese orphanages have kids tied into wooden create things and rooms were babies get left until they expire . China is nothing but a criminal organization that steals from other countries

[@colemattia6459]

puerh isn't the only black tea, there are other hei cha produce in other regions as well. Hunan, shaanxi, and guangxi all produce different kinds of hei cha, liu bao cha (whose processing is very similar to shou puerh), fuzhuan cha, and all the hunan hei cha (heizhuan, tian jian, fuzhuan also, qian liang, etc.)

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Cheers to the people who were actually drinking tea while watching this

[@tawgenal]

“whY ARe yOu evRYwHerE”

[@rlznns]

Sorry, I drink coffee while replying this comment ☕☕☕

[@WheelOfThought]

Me...😂 From bengali.. was sipping my Darjeeling tea.

[@iova666]

:( drinking ice coffee atm

[@pedrosampaio7349]

Lmao, was literally making coffee when I saw this come up

[@subhayunath]

I never thought that Bengal's GDP was world's 12% . Wow nice facts 👍👍👍👍 Sadly this was never taught in history classes. I feel shame that I don't know about my own great nation.... 😔😔

[@muderer_executioner]

Sadly this is never taught in indian history books this makes many bengalis think bengal was always poor and that the british actually helped india infact Bengal was actually the richest and most developed nation at that time

[@muderer_executioner]

@Laxman YT For a long part in history bengal was a nation and in other parts it was a state

[@neoretrodude]

Such a contrast. In Shashi Tharoor's "An Era of Darkness" (2016, p10) he claims that "India's share of world manufacturing exports fell from 27 per cent to 2 per cent under British rule."

[@puneetmishra4726]

@@neoretrodude yes and India's share of textile goods fell from near to 30% to below 3%. Just watch his famous oxford debate, "Britain does owe reparations"

[@neoretrodude]

@@puneetmishra4726 Indeed I did. The book that I have cited was his direct response to the Oxford Union debate. I remember him stating somewhere that he was pleasantly surprised that the video of the debate went viral over the internet and he then set to work on expanding what he said at that debate in the form of this book. The book was only very recently delivered to me so I've only just started to look at it. From what I have read in this book so far I am happy to see such a book published. One of the things that made me happy about it was that instead of it being a complete diatribe it has many citations to a whole literature I didn't know about in the bibliography and mentions of other authors through the discourse of his arguments.

[@lue6033]

I'm half English, half Irish so needless to say I found this genuinely fascinating... if only they taught us this sort of stuff in our history lessons the people of Britain may be more aware of the extent of our dark history, otherwise we're simply unable to fully understand our country and the world in general

[@19rcooper]

Where did you go to school? They do teach this stuff.

[@justice_crash2521]

Learning history will heal and Unite us all

[@ReyaLovy]

Every country will keep away their "bad history" only will provide their victory. While other countries will know the real history

[@tristc6909]

@@justice_crash2521 only if it's the correct history

[@ScarScarJetJT]

I am from Taiwan. Even we are politically adversary to China, I can testify that the suffering of Chinese people from western imperialism is a true wound in our history.

[@TheChaDaniels]

I believe there's a mistake that was said twice in this video: black tea isn't fermented, it's oxidized. The oxidation process is achieved by slightly bruising the leaves after picking and exposing them to the oxigen in the air, this process can be stopped at any point by dry-cooking the leaves. Oolong teas are teas with varying degrees of oxidation and range from low-oxidation to high-oxidation oolongs. When the leaves are allowed to fully oxidize, THEN we have black tea. But there is a variety of tea that IS fermented, it's called Pu-erh tea, and consists of leaves compressed into bricks (like the one shown in the video) that are stored and allowed to ferment. This video may also give the impression that tea bricks are a thing of the past, but they are in fact widely consumed today.

[@TheChaDaniels]

Great video by the way :D

[@UnprofessionalProfessor]

Thank you!

[@TheShadow2ninja]

Tea lol of course they wasarygung over tools ⚙ Stella not folower is weed cannabis-seeds and 1..2...3huh you what p legal yes??? World 🗺 panda 🐼 hey birds why crow say he mad 😡

[@discovercha2784]

Yes, you are right Charles, that's because I don't think this author is a tea expert. White tea, Oolong tea and black tea are partially or fully enzymatic oxidized tea, yellow tea is non-enzymatic oxidized, dark tea is paritly oxidized during the processing of raw dark tea then get post fermented during the storing time. Pu'er tea is fermented tea(naturally aged for raw pu'er tea, or piling fermented for ripe pu'er). So, as a Chiense tea educator, I still think this vedio is very true and very interesting! Well done! Thank you all for sharing such wonderful tea culture, TEA for Harmony!

[@georgebjorvik]

Thank you! Awesome video, but that bit really bothered me because it's a common misconception that keeps spreading on the internet along with the myth that increased oxidation equals higher caffeine. I wish @Cogito would make a note of that mistake in the description or annotations, if that's possible.

[@comb528491]

The British East India Company. If the 1600s-1800s had a villain, it would be them. And the fact that Bengal was the richest region in the world makes Winston Churchill's genocide of 4 Million people there much, much sadder.

[@rac3r5]

Didn't know it was one if the richest regions in the world. That is amazing and so sad (the end result).

[@ea.fitz216]

Churchill didn't commit a genocide in Bengal, it's a myth.

[@whoknowswhat186]

I mean yes Churchill could have done much more to prevent the death of these people, but it was not his fault, it was the Japanese. Say what you like about him but he was an amazing war time leader and without him we would all be under the control of Nazis.

[@user-bh2cl7jl5w]

@@whoknowswhat186 it was a deliberate militant policy of the churchill to divert supplies when there was already a surplus of food in Britain but Churchill wanted it as more stockpiles for greeks. He continued to ignore it until a newspaper company decided to print the atrocities happening on the BEngalis. Only then the other parliamentaries asked Churchhill on what he was doing and even then he said "Why hasn't Gandhi died yet"?? So no any excuse that Churchill meant well but dint execute properly is utterly false. and secondly, that Worl War had nothing to do with India, even then we were fucked over so yes Churchill was a racist bigot who needed to have a horrible death as horrible as the Bengalis. He said "Indians are a beastly people with a beastly religion" so please leave ay notion that he was any good out of your mind

[@comb528491]

@@ea.fitz216 he literally joked about the Millions of deaths saying that they'll breed themselves back. Dude was a Genocidal Lunatic and his name should be besmirched

[@RenegadeRanga]

"Americans add high fructose corn syrup" was absolutely gold.

[@yengsabio5315]

Like, "Ah the Americans, here we go again!" Crazy eh! High fructose corn syrup? On tea? That's damn torture to the senses!

[@georgiaholmes5199]

They put sugar in their bread, wtf is that about?

[@eaglescout1984]

That's a Yankee thing. Southerners use sugar... a lot of sugar.

[@bluepapaya77]

That goes for all food and drink though, not just tea. ;)

[@notmyworld44]

@@georgiaholmes5199 The sugar feeds the yeast to make the bread dough rise. See?

[@ikazuchioni]

Uncle Iroh approves.

[@pancakesbf2704]

And Sensei Wu

[@oddish2253]

The White Lotus is watching China.

[@CriscDogs22]

...This is nothing but hot leaf juice...

[@vaishalithakur4243]

Avatar fan sported

[@harryye9296]

@@CriscDogs22 Uncle, that's what ALL tea is.

[@arkscrew]

Tea, silk, paper, porcelain, gunpowder... China indeed did give us wonderful stuff

[@smitakalita3920]

As a person from Assam, India.. I can confirm every bit you said about Assam is true.

[@butterflygroundhog]

I'm so glad you took the time to sensitize people to the necessity of buying fair trade, thanks so much!

[@saidtoshimaru1832]

4:22 - Love that the guy in the red armour drinks tea with the sword still piercing through his body.

[@tangledfish]

You know with everything going on in the world right now I sure am glad to see a video pop up in my notifications about something as innocuous and apolitical as tea. It will be a relief to get away from global conflict and gross exploitation for a few minutes. Edit: Oh no.

[@AriaIsara]

😂 I love the way he drops serious political info in an otherwise cute, innocuous video!

[@thisistheplacetobe]

Hahaha.. now that was a miscalculation

[@Cobalt985]

Don't look into how coffee is produced, then...

[@gitanjalimech7669]

I am from Assam, India. We still have a lot of tea gardens but most of them are not properly looked after.

[@hiimryan2388]

Dhaval Shukla but the east India bois will come

[@pritsingh9766]

@@hiimryan2388 let them come, they will know that Gandhi has gone nuclear this time and 5-6 are enough for their small island of UK

[@theinfotainer3451]

@@pritsingh9766 LOL

[@johndripper]

joi aai axon lol

[@anupamtiwari5587]

@@pritsingh9766 Honestly, less than 5 are enough coz of the more adanced and impactful missiles.

[@saidtoshimaru1832]

Chinese: Tea was a bitter medicinal infusion. Argentines/Uruguayans/Paraguayans: Hold my yerba mate.

[@futureworld2936]

Take a sip of tea every time he says 'tea'

[@hiimryan2388]

Future World oh no I'm addicted

[@UXtatic]

You know...I see China's motivation to be a powerhouse again and I get India's feelings towards GB. So much was destroyed for a frigging plant.

[@ghosthunter8664]

😕

[@julioriveragomez6995]

Please, now the SEA nations are gettin annoyed

[@ANONYMOUS-it1ku]

You deserve millions of subscribers brother Lv from indian brother!❤️ Mean while I am having tea while watching this!😁

[@CogitoEdu]

Thank you very much! I love that these videos reach people around the world. Enjoy your tea!

[@harshit2.02]

@@CogitoEdu :)

[@moonatee_8666]

This just makes me depressed every time I drink tea

[@liamday5963]

at least Hong Kong protests and democracy is is happening from this

[@catsidhe181]

@@liamday5963 if you see what's actually happening in Hong Kong instead of what the Western media is selling you...it's not a happy thing dude. It is deeply, deeply depressing

[@ritasalengiene2706]

@@catsidhe181 Its depressing as the once democratic Hong kong will be forced to join China. A communist country that censors freedom of speech, democracy, puts minorities in concentration campwhere they are starved and beaten ( Xinjang camps) and harvest prisoner organs for money.

[@wes00chin]

@@ritasalengiene2706 Are you talking about china or the US? (/s)

[@Jim58223]

Cat Sidhe If you see what's actually happening in Hong Kong instead of the Chinese propaganda, it's deeply depressing.

[@beareggers]

"You can't trade opium, it's addictive!" Tea sellers: ◑.◑

[@docsfan]

You guys and girls are the best!! Helping the world deal with social distancing! Thank you for all you do

[@CogitoEdu]

Thank you! Happy to be helping out in anyway we can. Stay safe.

[@arvpradhan6261]

@@CogitoEdu you are videos are one of the best the only problem is the frequency of videos you should make smaller parts and for big vids you can make it part by part or do it side by side small vids

[@ishanr8697]

@@arvpradhan6261 Hard disagree. Keep the "long" good videos which are already pretty quick summaries, not 3 or 5 min drip-feeds.

[@Yanousecq]

5:35 in Polish, Lithuanian and Belorussian we say HERBATA or ARBATA from mixing latin herba + chinese tea :--)

[@sagorikathousen901]

Tea 🍃☕ I'm from Assam. And my home is surrounded by tea gardens and the garden is since 1900's . Tho I live bear state highway but still both the sides of the roads are covered of tea gardens nd mountains and never ending scenario. Loving your video and your efforts. Also that hinduism video ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@smritih98]

The British really ruined everything for everyone huh...

[@t.3465]

@John Hynds well I supposed you are British too, eh, mate?

[@thadc136]

@@t.3465 He’s obviously of English heritage who settled in Northern Ireland 😂😂

[@thadc136]

@John Hynds I apologise, it was in jest. I do not disagree with your opinion actually. I made that assumption based on the fact that no Irish catholic would defend the British empire the way you have. I might be wrong but looks like I wasn’t. 🤪

[@joshuathompson4242]

While I somewhat agree with you, the British spread freedom and democracy. They didn't ruin everything for everyone

[@VashtheStampede007]

@@joshuathompson4242 , That’s a good joke, hahahahaha 😂, I am laughing. The UK stole Hong Kong from China in 1840. After 157 years, it still had no democracy when it was returned to China in 1997. Every HK governor was a white British male. Every HK official was a white British man. There was no election for the locals who made 97% of the population. Funny now the UK tried to push China to give HK democracy...

[@USBearForce]

Britain: "HE WHO CONTROLS THE TEA CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE!!!" Or at least that's how they acted.

[@kingsoonkit9234]

Tea is king

[@kiwiprouddavids724]

Chinese orphanages have kids tied into wooden create things and rooms were babies get left until they expire

[@RonanC]

This is the most criminally underrated channel on KZbin by far

[@anatolpomozov9480]

Thank you for the great educational series. I can't stop watching them. A small linguistic correction. At 5:31, in Russian the word tea is pronounced the same way as in Indian and Turkish language - "chay" (*not* "tsay").

[@UsefulCharts]

I LOVE TEA SO MUCH!!!!!!!! ☕☕☕

[@UsefulCharts]

Interestingly though, I apparently love the Cogito channel so much that I watched this video prior to having my first cup of tea for the day.

[@readisgooddewaterkant7890]

Me too

[@callmefortex201]

Same

[@brandonrico6223]

What in the world is usefulcharts doing here im a fan of usefulcharts

[@Yukinasenpai]

Thanks to india bodhidharm

[@shabbysinkalot3174]

With the quality of content you're putting out, you deserve a lot more subs man

[@MFDReesha]

Just to clarify… Portugese aren’t the only “cha” users in EU. In Czech Republic, we say “Čaj” (chai). I am much more fond of it after seeing this video :)

[@Kurtizss]

Remember this quote: "I know tea is just Hot Leaf Water but This is a disgrace!" General Iroh of The Fire Nation

[@harryye9296]

I think its Hot leaf juice.

[@60ritikanand69]

China: Has tea. India: Has opium. East India Company : Gentlemen, let me introduce myself.

[@60ritikanand69]

@THE GENERAL Can you explain how they were used in transaction?

[@shashwatsinha2704]

@@60ritikanand69 thhey were smuggled for silver

[@60ritikanand69]

@@shashwatsinha2704 Ohh. Thanks.

[@oddish2253]

Oh look free reel state.

[@temptemp4174]

China: has tea India: has opium British East India company: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZ2cZmyHo6lmoq8

[@Lou.B]

This is one of the very best films on tea history that I've seen! You've done a FANTASTIC job of hitting the high points, relating the interwoven historical threads, and even breaking new ground (I really liked your description/graphics for the entomology of cha/tea) to create a fascinating introduction. VERY WELL DONE!

[@MachaMongRuad]

(Just a small nitpick- etymology is the word you wanted. Entomology is the study of insects. 😅)

[@omgnetworks3443]

After coffee and tea, all we need is History of Coke

[@kentchamberlain5720]

History of cannabis...?

[@omgnetworks3443]

@@kentchamberlain5720 oh why not

[@maeam]

Both cokes, Of course

[@rahulpal2490]

coke: I'm going to end this man's love for tea.

[@Kodeb8]

@@kentchamberlain5720 I'd actually like that! Cannabis consumption was actually extremely common all the way up until the 20th century when the government started banning it. Many ancient religions used cannabis, like Hinduism! Hindus considered cannabis leaves to be a "source of happiness" and they even believed that a god lives inside the leaves!

[@HelloIamRachnaGupta]

Just 1 hour before I was wondering about origins of tea! And then this showed up at top of my recommendations.

[@oddish2253]

KZbin algorithm gather your preference and distain and formulate possible interest through patterns. In other words it can predict your choices before you even make them. Prescience.

[@e.blessssssingg]

Oh Nooo

[@CCPJAYLPHAN1994]

Thank you Lord Buddha and Venerable Monks (Sangha) for the spread of Tea.

[@user-vu2yb1gy4l]

yes 💚

[@Dragons_Armory]

Great video man, loved it Tiny nitpick, in the map of 8:04 the QIng during this period already extended as far west as modern Xinjiang and the Tibetan Plateau. There were respectively governed by a smattering of local rulers while they reported to Qing Ambans (governors) It's also kind of lol that when you zoom out the map from 8:50 that you did include those 2 regions. Also Taiwan at this time was also part of the Qing domains. Kangxi Emperor conquered it and it wasn't until the Japanese took it in the 1st Sino Japanese War in the late 1800s that the island was annexed. Thanks. Keep up your vids!.

[@aryaman1879]

Fun Fact : East India company is now owned by an Indian 🇮🇳

[@magnisky]

I always find it funny when westerners say “chai tea”...they are really saying “tea tea” twice. 😆

[@hiimryan2388]

Magnisky B they need to make sure!

[@magnisky]

Comrade Ryan haha!

[@ANTSEMUT1]

@@magnisky they do that with a bunch of things, like kopi liwak coffee. Kopi already means coffee in Indonesian and Malay.

[@GreenLanternCorps2814]

We are saying "'tea tea' twice"? So we're saying tea tea tea tea?

[@magnisky]

Samuel Khasin haha nice joke if u were joking.

[@MegaRazzzz]

Cogito is legitimately one of the best channels on KZbin. I hope you're able to monetize these videos well because you deserve it and more.

[@Bithead]

inb4 Spiffing Britt busts down the door and steals all the tea.

[@kentchamberlain5720]

Is Yorkshire Tea fair trade?

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@kentchamberlain5720 no www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/brew-news/why-is-yorkshire-tea-not-fairtrade though they're claiming they pay above the Fairtrade price even for farmers who are certified with other groups like the Rainforest Alliance.

[@greasher926]

Black tea being fermented is a misnomer, it’s actually oxidized, a similar process to that of a bruised apple or banana.

[@elliebeaudry1072]

In Shanghainese (wu dialect) tea is pronounce 'zu', which seems sufficiently different from either of the 'cha' or 'tea' variations mentioned, although there might be a linguistic linkage between one or the other that I'm not aware of.

[@galfridus8413]

I’m Shanghainese. It should be pronounced as “zall”. There is no connection between Wu and Cantonese. Wu belongs to the northern dialect of Mandarin, while Cantonese is derived from ancient Chinese. No one outside of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau understands Cantonese.

[@zinanmo]

@@galfridus8413 Guangxi people: wut？

[@Anthony-hq5jt]

Your channel is by far one of my favourite history channel's on KZbin !! Here is an idea for a future video : The History of Cannabis

[@yadneshchaudhari4208]

Fun fact: actually, tea existed in India WAY before east India company. But the traditional Indian tea doesn’t only have tea leaves in it, it might also have lemon grass, sandalwood, Jasmine, eucalyptus, cardamom, cinnamon, pepper and other spices. It is called “Kaadha” and can be used as a beverage and a medicine too for digestion, respiration problems and many diseases.

[@gerihuginn2143]

This might explain why in Romania we use the word ceai for everything that refers to boiling plants instead of the old words for them.

[@yadneshchaudhari4208]

@@gerihuginn2143 woah fascinating

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@gerihuginn2143 cause romani ethnicity was Indian and you can find some similarities in Language

[@happypasta9614]

@@ShubhamMishrabro Romani and Romania are not the same thing.

[@djidh8476]

@- king- well , people dont like them , its like the Uyghur in china , they want them gone

[@rageraptor7127]

Uncle Iroh would be proud of this channel for making this video

[@reachthroughreality]

It's kinda crazy that we're still dealing with the consequences of the East India Trading Company's Opium War today. 150 years later it could still cause an international crisis and another war.

[@toosiyabrandt8676]

HI YES! Like maybe REVENGE for the mass opium addictions in China caused by the British! Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua

[@tycholarsen9306]

Fun fact for those of you interested in the Chinese language. The word for green tea is 绿茶 which is almost a direct translation into English. 绿 (Lu) 色 = green and 茶 (Cha) = tea. However, while we say black tea in english the Chinese word is 红茶 which means red tea. 红(Hong) 色 = red. This used to confuse me for a long time because people kept asking me whether I like 红茶 or 绿茶 more and I had no idea that the Chinese call it red tea.

[@yoingen]

你中文很好。。。。因为红色属火，中医认为喝红茶对胃有好处。因为胃是属土的，火可以生土。当然，这是中国的五行理论。

[@enternalinferno]

This way of doing history is incredibly interesting, great video!

[@ronitdhanphole]

I am honestly amazed at the amount of research you do for your videos, most infotainment content on youtube is rather light on the 'info' part, but that is not the case with you. Love from India.

[@kramp154]

Cogito i know times are never at there best when going against whats the simple way. Like being a educationel channel instead of being a pile of cheap mass produced garbage like what most of the other channels on this platform do. I just hope that this channel brings you the same joy that it gives me and hopefully evryone else whos watching. Aswell i love the concept of looking at the history of the world through its interaction with a specific thing, like food, although i the indus valley civilization video was a work of beautiful art aswell. In any case please although times may often be lean, i just hope that the joy you put in these videos is kept in your heart aswell.

[@whateverbabe]

I loved this video! So informative and the illustrations are beautiful as usual

[@UnseenJapan]

Wonderfully portrayed history! Stimulants like tea, sugar, and coffee, which we all take for granted at this point, have intricate histories sadly dyed red with blood. You did a great job of portraying that complicated and extremely global history. Well done!

[@tomkelly8827]

I had no idea tea started in Sichuan! I visited 2 tea mountains and many tea shops while I was there but I never knew what people were saying! It certainly seemed very old and the tea ceremonies were amazing. I have never seen tea taken so seriously! Now I know a little more about what I was seeing. Thanks for the video. I really loved how you ended it.

[@davestevens6283]

Royals - the original influencer models, no social media accounts required.

[@arthas640]

Their social media account was their royal court

[@leahbj7944]

This was excellent. A job well done. Loved the humour. Thank you - enjoyed it very much!

[@orangecoco2825]

I love the videos on the histories of foods and drinks.... they are always so entertaining

[@saotome6502]

This is some fantastic production work.

[@hg8549]

Loved that fish's reaction at 10:08 😂

[@deletedskagg]

You are my favorite KZbinr! I can't imagine not learning something new from you every morning! Thank you for sharing your research and knowledge.

[@Otokichi786]

In childhood, I drank Lipton tea with a dash of sugar. These days, I drink Green tea neat. The fermented teas (Black, Jasmine, Orange Pekoe, etc.) are OK, even the "natural teas" prepared from Rose Hips et. al. In the 1960's "Tea" was druggie shorthand for Cannabis Sativa .

[@thargor2k]

Great video! Small correction on a technicality though: black tea is not fermented, it's oxidised. If it's fermented it would be pu'er tea (which is incidentally called "black tea" in China, compared to English "black tea" for which the Chinese translates to "red tea" - which might be the source for this small mistake). For confirmation e.g. Have a look at en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_processing. Also: Chinese tea is still pressed into cakes, even today, especially pu'er.

[@ritasalengiene2706]

9:48 The fact one has a Thompson SMG makes it hilarious 🤣

[@liamrinehart2116]

Absolutely love your videos

[@pratyushtrivedi4682]

Why aren't there more views?????????????? This deserves more likes and views

[@BirdEgg123]

The video came out 30 minutes ago bruh

[@kaitlyn__L]

Your videos are really good, it's nice to not see any tiptoeing around "sensitive issues" about the various British atrocities. Obviously you have no personal reason to do that, but growing up in England was a hell of a thing for history lessons let me tell ya. No large interconnected narratives, because they would always have led someplace dark and horrible. Just individual episodes presented as unrelated. 90% of my history education was pre-Empire, with a ridiculous amount of focus on the War of the Roses. When it came to colonial era, they conveniently only discussed atrocities committed by Dutch (South Africa), Spanish (Latin America) and USA. Absolutely no mention of the British Caribbean plantations for example. Absolutely despicable. No mention of any of the Irish plantations either, or even that the IRA existed at all (since the GFA was signed a few years before my first year of primary school). Just acted like these vast swathes of history did not exist. It was only when I started using social media ten years ago that I started learning about some of the terrible things, and I immediately was like "ok.. why the fuck is everyone still horny for Churchill? Why is my form in school named after him? When he said and did all these things?". Real eye openers. But it was only individual people posting on Twitter and Tumblr of the day, there weren't any well-produced videos with source lists like yours that don't shy away from this. Hell, I'm not sure if there were any educational history videos on KZbin in 2010 period. Anyway, thanks for reading, and please keep it up! BTW, do you get more money for watching on Nebula or on KZbin? I can't afford individual Patreons, but I do have Nebula. I usually still watch on KZbin for comments and the ability to easily put it on my TV without using a computer. Thanks again! Hope you have a great day! (It's interesting that I normally drink coffee but was actually drinking tea when I noticed your video in my emails. Though I should apologise, as I always have milk and sugar/honey for black tea, unless it's American-style cold sweet tea!)

[@19rcooper]

You had poor schooling, most people I know learned about the good and the bad openly.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@19rcooper that’s nonsense. While I cannot speak for modern secondary schooling since the Academy system has basically gotten rid of the national curriculum, when I attended in the late 00s, I took history up until year 10 when it clashed with my science periods. I have already outlined the severe limitations in the teaching in my OP. WRT schooling quality, I attended a school which ranked extremely highly in the region and country, and even received extra funding in the early ‘10s when most schools were seeing nowt due to austerity. Basically the only way to get a better education was to not attend a state school, and to pay lots of money instead. But as state schools go it was right up there. If that’s “poor education” then 90% of the country gets much worse. Which is backed-up by such ideas as a majority of people saying the Empire was a net good globally! If we were really taught “the good with the bad” then there’s no way anyone would really believe the massive human rights abuses, guttings of local economies, slavery, etc that we committed, were justified by one or two major events. So yes, I cannot speak for elective history in years 10-13 or beyond at university. But the scope of my comment was the mandatory part of schooling anyway. If you have to take an elective before you hear much of the significant bad we’ve put into the world, rather than only one or two incidents, then that’s not good enough. But it’s much easier for you to tell yourself that people just went to bad schools I guess. Never mind that it was the national curriculum anyway, so maybe excellent schools teach a wider variety of topics today but certainly didn’t back then.

[@19rcooper]

@@kaitlyn__L I was in a much more deprived school with very little funding at the same time as you and we all learned about the famines, the hunger strikes, the divide and conquer and the subordination...along with the railroads and the industry and the independence. So was everyone else I knew from other schools I suppose it's less to do with 'the system' and more how much/little your teachers stuck to the curriculum. As well as how much attention you paid in class lol

[@kiwiprouddavids724]

Chinese orphanages have kids tied into wooden create things and rooms were babies get left until they expire . China is nothing but a global criminal organization that steals from other countries and kills it's own people by the millions

[@JJaqn05]

@@kaitlyn__L What's a net good/bad supposed to mean? Because of Britain the world can communicate in a single language, the internet exists, the industrial revolution happened, medicine was reinvented, vaccines were invented, the balance of power was kept in Europe. When it comes to the "atrocities" that were done in some of it's territories that's what usually happens when a group of people resist your rule. I don't see how Britain was any worse than any of it's European neighbours or the Ottomans and Persians. Qing China was so big because it subjucated nations like Mongolia and Tibet. "it's nice to not see any tiptoeing around "sensitive issues" about the various British atrocities" he is exaggerating a lot without providing any context to any of those "sensitive issues" and that's because he's Irish so of course he's going to say anything to make Britain look worse. When it comes to school i think they should just teach history as it was without any sort of agenda and actually providing context. I also don't see how learning about the War of the Roses is a bad thing? That was a cool war. Also i'm not denying Britains cruel treatment of Ireland, India and maybe Africa. I just don't think those things outweigh those other events

[@Tetratravelssrilanka]

Sri Lanka is the 4th largest tea producer and we provide the famous "Ceylon tea" to the world.

[@Tetratravelssrilanka]

British started the tea plantations here in 1867.

[@ompatil201]

Yooo bro That is one of the best tea i have ever tasted

[@Tetratravelssrilanka]

@@ompatil201 yes bro

[@ompatil201]

@@Tetratravelssrilanka I am from India so i tasted it

[@amilaperera812]

Ya but not mention in this but mention colonial india and old china 🤷‍♀️

[@agskater1914]

Amazing video, thank you for posting g

[@pollo2351]

love your accent! Thanks a lot, I needed this for assignment.

[@sagorikathousen901]

Just loving ur channel u put so efforts . And definitely u are genius. U got many knowledge across world . ♥️ Love from Assam, India .

[@adarsh6857]

5:31 never knew subscribe meant tea

[@hiimryan2388]

Adarsh Kurisingal the "sub" is silent and scribe is pronounced like "tea"

[@adarsh6857]

@@hiimryan2388 😂😂😂

[@Kennychoco22]

Cogito deserves millions of subscribers. You’re awesome

[@charles8589]

Loving these videos. You gonna do tobacco and sugar? Seems like a similar story to coffee, tea and chocolate in a lot of ways historically

[@angdaedurelen1206]

Could you do a part two can get into the history of different forms of tea being sold such as milk tea, chai, teabags, resurgence of loose leaf in the west, builders tea, matcha and other trends? I didn't expect the video to end in the 1800s

[@dentoncrimescene]

I will make sure I buy fair trade tea now.

[@masudrashid5494]

You are so well researched I stand in awe! I’m from Bangladesh, and even most of my compatriots don’t know the info about 12% GDP around 1750s ..I myself stumbled upon it by accident when I was reading a book by Noam Chomsky (and he named an autobiography by Robert Clive, which btw also mentions how Clive had toured around Dhaka and compared it to the city of London at that time!) and had to dig around for further reading...the only existing literatures on this (that I found) was in Bengali so I’m wondering what English book did you find it in?

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Wikipedia. It also says they contributed 50% to mughal empire or India economy.

[@Angelious2]

Always so excited to see another video from you.

[@CogitoEdu]

More to come!

[@danielmagyar2028]

"There are only two ways you can say tea." Hungarians: "Well, yes, but actually no."

[@K_i_t_t_y84]

This is so neat, I loved it ♥

[@Innovate22]

Laszlo Montgomery’s “China History Podcast” has a 10 part series on the History of Tea. Recommended for those who want to delve deeper in the subject matter.

[@kiwiprouddavids724]

Chinese orphanages have kids tied into wooden create things and rooms were babies get left until they expire ....look up the documentaries on that or there's moas great leap forward that killed millions of his own people and sent China begging to America 😂. like how China had to beg the British to stop a rag tag bunch of pirates lead by a woman brought China to it's knees 😂😂😂

[@her_lines]

never knew history of tea would be so fascinating. Cool Video!

[@soulful848]

What an absolutely amazing video. Nothing less than a documentary.

[@notmyworld44]

My favorite tea is Lapsang Souchong (a pine-wood smoked tea). Add annatto, cream, and sweetener, and you have Thai Tea, which is marvellously delicious!

[@peubie3457]

very informative. thanks for a great video with great animations.

[@sujata15164]

Loved the presentation.......

[@talknight2]

The Russian word for tea is just Chay too O.o

[@martinsmolik2449]

And poles have "herbata". WTF poland? :D

[@eynchaglobus2694]

Yep, idk where they got zhay, although in Arabic it does change from chay to shay depending on dialect so who knows

[@reddhong6665]

@@martinsmolik2449 herbata like herbal in English?

[@satyakisil4289]

Chay comes from the word Chah which is the Chinese word for tea. Some other languages also call it Chah.

[@goldleaf8988]

@@martinsmolik2449 I heard that comes from a word pronounced “herba tee” or something like that, I can’t quite remember, but that means the polish word is a variation of tea

[@jaminator2136]

As a Bengali I pronounce as cha as well, so it’s pretty cool how linguistic intermingling had occurred.

[@Hackerisitic]

Pretty sure you pronounce it like cha

[@georgerichardson7560]

What about a video on the bedouin and their cultural history or the Bahai Religion? Fantastic content by the way! Look forward to more :)

[@syncmaster915n]

Do a video on porcelain trade between China and the rest of the world. And paper trade as well. During the Tang Dynasty, blank pieces of paper in cart loads were traded along the silk road for central Asia merchandises.

[@charles8589]

I'm noticing a few of your videos where things take a dark turn when the British show up lol

[@estherbosbach377]

Since Cogito is Irish, there might be some bias :)

[@bdd2752]

I've noticed history takes a very dark turn when the British leave Britain. Or am I just crazy🤔

[@GoikOShea]

The more I hear about the Brits the less I like them.

[@Escave734]

Username checks out

[@curvy4655]

They did a lot of bad, but that seems to have been the case for most people at some point or another.

[@kentchamberlain5720]

"The sun never sets on the British Empire, because even God doesn't trust them in the dark." Forget who said that, but I love that quote.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Just wait until more information comes

[@dentoncrimescene]

Me too and I'm English!

[@jasonbig2653]

Great story! I love the Robbed Fortune joke, haha, you are so so smart!

[@adrianaslund8605]

What I like about tea is that its full of subtle chemicals that affect your mood in small ways. Caffeine is energizing, L-theanine and catechins are relaxing and theophylline opens your airway passages and helps you sing. Atleast for me.

[@satyabratshanu8815]

Chapter: The history of tea. Sub-chapter: How Britain earned money.

[@pauloyih1]

I have enjoyed this presentation of a sad part of human history :) Thank you

[@thatsanguine]

U made this vedio so well ❤️ loved it