The document discusses the origins and history of coffee. It describes how coffee was discovered by a goat herder in Ethiopia who noticed his goats acting strangely after eating red berries. He shared this discovery with a monk who used the berries to stay awake for night prayers. As the 1600s progressed, coffee houses sprang up across Europe and became social hubs for conversation and debate, similar to coffee houses in Arabia. Today, coffee is the second largest commodity traded globally.

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How was coffee discovered?
The most popular origin story of the beloved bean starts with Kaldi and his goats (1)
in 700 AD. Kaldi, an Ethiopian (formerly Abyssinia) goat herder stumbled on his
goats acting quite strange.
They were dancing. This definitely wasn’t normal. He discovered that they were
eating red berries and concluded that this fruit was the cause of this odd behavior.
After stumbling upon this magic fruit, he shared his findings with a monk, who was
ecstatic to find something that would help him stay awake all night as he prayed.

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Coffee houses
As the 1600’s rolled on, coffee houses sprung up all over Europe in England,
Austria, France, Germany and Holland.
Much like the coffee houses of Arabia, these places became social hubs where one
could engage in stimulating conversation and political debates. In England, these
became known as penny universities.
For the price of a cup of coffee you could learn all sorts of things as public
conversations carried on. Many of these coffee houses even grew into businesses,
such as Edward Lloyd’s Coffee House which became a large scale insurance
company.

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Second largest
commodity!
Today, coffee is the second largest commodity traded on a global scale!