Tea: Did you mean...?

Matcha, the powdered green tea used in the traditional Japanese tea ceremony.

A hishaku (bamboo ladle) and chawan (bowl) used in the Japanese tea ceremony. Before mixing the tea the bowl is rinsed with fresh water.

The English East India Company (EIC) was founded in 1600, and it came to control both trade and territories in India, as well as a trade monopoly with China. Goods the EIC traded included spices, cotton cloth, tea, and opium, all in such...

Boston Tea Party, 16 December 1773, hand-colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier, 1846. Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA.

A traditional Japanese tea room with tatami matting, caligraphy hanging scroll and a single vase of flowers. The hearth is set into the floor on the left.

A political cartoon satirizing the Edenton Tea Party, when 51 women signed an agreement to boycott British goods in October 1774. The ladies are depicted as rowdy in an attempt to ridicule the idea of women involved in politics. Cartoon attributed...

A traditional bamboo whisk (chasen) and bowl (chawan) used in the Japanese tea ceremony.

Left: A Chinese tea bowl of black glazed stone ware, Song Dynasty, 960-1279 CE. Right: A Chinese lacquered bowl stand, Yuan Dynasty, 13th century CE. (British Museum, London)

A photograph showing tea being distributed by volunteers to air raid shelters during the London Blitz of 1940-1. John Keble Church kitchen. (Imperial War Museums)

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-history-of-tea-shunan-teng Tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world after water –– and from sugary Turkish Rize tea to salty Tibetan butter tea, there are almost as many ways...