Look, I know it can be hard when the history of your country only goes back 200 years, but we didn’t invade India for the tea. There wasn’t any in India when we got there.
We started growing it there to reduce our dependency on Chinese tea, and in return we gave China a crippling opium addiction. And they gave us Hong Kong until 1999, or something.
I mean obviously not india as it is now, but there were and had been kingdoms there for well over 1500 years.
And also you went there because of the massive trade that we had. At one point almost all the gold in Europe came from India. You also wanted cinnamon and other spices. There was more wealth leaving the west coast of India than most of Europe had experienced
The other reason is that the Brits REALLY wanted that newfangled tea - first by routing trade from China through the British East India Company, and then by growing tea directly in India itself in the 19th century.
Look, I know it can be hard when the history of your country only goes back 200 years, but we didn’t invade India for the tea. There wasn’t any in India when we got there.
We started growing it there to reduce our dependency on Chinese tea, and in return we gave China a crippling opium addiction. And they gave us Hong Kong until 1999, or something.
I mean obviously not india as it is now, but there were and had been kingdoms there for well over 1500 years.
And also you went there because of the massive trade that we had. At one point almost all the gold in Europe came from India. You also wanted cinnamon and other spices. There was more wealth leaving the west coast of India than most of Europe had experienced
Are you suggesting I should actually read the comments rather than just looking at the pretty pictures before posting? Crazy talk.
I know, wild, I’ll try to restrain myself in the future
As a fellow commenter who doesn’t read the other comments before commenting, i salute this comment.