Tea in ancient china: Did you mean...?

Discover what led American colonists in 1773 CE to toss tea into the Boston Harbor in what became known as the Boston Tea Party. — Before the Revolutionary War, American colonists were taxed heavily...

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...

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)

A cafe owner sells tea in the street during the London Blitz (1940-1). (Imperial War Museums)

A c. 1880 oil on canvas, The Cup of Tea, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. Keen to capture everyday life, the model here is the artist's sister Lydia. This work was selected by Cassatt to...

A belief in an afterlife was central to every major civilization of the ancient world and this encouraged the recognition of the reality of ghosts as the spirits of the departed who, for one...

Macao (Macau) is located on a peninsula in the estuary of the Pearl River delta in southeast China and it was a Portuguese colonial settlement from c. 1557 until 1999. Macao was a major trade hub of the Portuguese Empire and with...

Marco Polo (1254-1324 CE) was a Venetian merchant and explorer who travelled to China and served the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan (l. 1214-1294 CE) between c. 1275 and 1292 CE. Polo's adventures are recounted in his own writings, The...

Throughout history, in order for a government to be respected and obeyed, it must possess some form of legitimacy recognized by the governed. Governmental systems have relied on a number of models...

Silk is a fabric first produced in Neolithic China from the filaments of the cocoon of the silk worm. It became a staple source of income for small farmers and, as weaving techniques improved, the reputation of Chinese silk spread...