The homeland of tea is China, where it has been grown for over five thousand years. Next Japanese, Koreans and people from South-east Asia began growing it.
Just a thousand years ago Arabic merchants were successful at taking away dried tea leaves to Middle East. Tea reached Europe in the middle of the 16th century thanks Venetians, who were keeping lively contacts with Arabs and Turks.
But until 1610 its deliveries were occasional, and dried pressed leaves were treated as an expensive medicine. Only regular deliveries from Japan by Dutchmen gave the beginning of career of this stimulant in Europe, one can divided teas into five kinds: white, green , yellow, red and black.