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Below is a brick of tea, bricks like this used to be used as currency!

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I found it very interesting how people used to put tea into blocks and use it as currency. Now that tea leaves are so mass grown, it's hard to think about. I also think it's interesting how this tied in to our unit, I learned a lot.

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Below is an image of some of some of Lipton's brews

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In India, before British took over, tea was used for medical usage.
Indian plantations began when tea was stolen from China. The East India Company later sent over more people to China to bring home more species of tea.
British started a tea trade by offering land to anyone who would grow and export tea. They only sold black tea.
Lipton tea invented tea bags. They're an easier way to drink tea without drinking all of the leaves too.

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Tea became so popular that countries began accepting it as a sort of peace offering.
Japanese Monks and Priests presented tea to the Japan and their emperor asked all with land to grow it. Tea soon began a privilege for people of higher class/religions. This introduction also led to tea ceremonies.
Tea traveled from Asia to Europe.  A study was done and found that most money came from tax on tea and salt.

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"Tea Brick". Ken Bressett. May 20, 2016. wikipedia.org.

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In the Song dynasty, with the intentions of making tea easier to brew, they powdered the leaves.  Later the Chinese began to crumble the tea and roasted it rather than steaming it.  This new process created "loose leaf tea". Below is a map of the Song Dynasty

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In the Tang dynasty a man wrote and published a book all about tea, the book got into the hands of many people and word was spread.  Tea was also made into bricks and used as currency. Below is a map of the Tang Dynasty.

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How Lipton Changed the Tea Business continued

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How Lipton Changed the Tea Business continued

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When he did this, he told everyone he was purchasing land in Australia to throw his competitors off. Once Lipton bought land, he immediately began growing tea, and soon found that he needed a more convenient way to get tea from here to there making the production process even simpler for his workers. He invented a cable car system to transport the leaves which resulted in extreme efficiency. Below is a video of women working in the Sri Lanka tea plantation.

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Sri Lanka - Hindi woman working at Tea Plantation (Lipton)

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Sri Lanka - Hindi woman working at Tea Plantation (Lipton)

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Lipton changed the tea business drastically through marketing.
Historically tea was a luxury drink and was only consumed by the finest, wealthiest people.  Lipton was a marketing genius and had a way of persuading people to purchase whatever he was selling.   Lipton found where it was much cheaper to grow tea leaves, and bought fields there, Sri Lanka.

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Tea is native to Southeast Asia, specifically popular around Southern China.  Legend has it (not proved) that Chinese emperor, Sheng Nong was sitting in his garden consuming a boiling hot cup of water, a custom in China at the time, when leaves from a nearby tree fell down into his cup. The leaves turned the water green creating the first known cup of tea. The emperor drank the green drink and loved it soon spreading the word to all.

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His intentions were to cut out the middle-man distributor and sell straight to customers.

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In 1890 Sir Thomas Lipton bought tea fields in Ceylon-now Sri Lanka, in order to begin his own company. Success came to him shortly after he began selling his tea.
Below is a clip of some History of Sir Thomas Lipton

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The founder of Lipton tea, the lover of yachts, man of mustache, and former superstar played a huge role in bringing tea to America and we thank him for that. In this episode we give you a brief look into the life of this fabulous man.

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           History of Lipton Tea               By Mollie Kinter

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           History of Lipton Tea               By Mollie Kinter

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"direct from the gardens to the teapot"