Coffee In The Ottoman Empire
It was the Ottoman Empire that brought coffee to entirely new places, for new reasons:
- The Muslim religion's prohibition of alcohol consumption gave a big lift to coffee.
- Coffee became a substitute for wine.
Coffee diffused quickly throughout the Ottoman Empire, giving rise to the world's first coffee houses.
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