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Re-order Paragraphs
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Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into the correct order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- It was only after the East India Company began cultivating tea in colonial India that prices fell enough for it to become the everyday British beverage it is today.
- From these ports it reached Britain, where it was initially so expensive that it was locked away in cabinets and served only to guests of high status.
- This growing expertise made tea a valuable trade commodity, and by the seventeenth century Dutch and Portuguese merchants were carrying it westward along established maritime routes.
- By the Tang dynasty, roughly a thousand years later, tea cultivation had become systematic enough that a dedicated manual, the Cha Jing, was written to codify its preparation.
- According to legend, tea was discovered in China around 2737 BCE when leaves from a wild shrub drifted into a boiling pot of water.