Tea or Cha

• Tea and most of the world's words for tea originated from China
• The main trade routes over which tea travelled for more than 2000 years are the Silk Road
• The pronunciation of a language's word for tea as "cha" or "te" was determined by whether the language was land-based (resulting in "cha") or coastal (resulting in "te")
• The form "cha" spread earlier than the form "te"
• The people from the Netherlands first brought tea back to most of Europe
• Portugal has a different word for tea, which is "chá", because they traded through Macao where this term is used
• Some languages have their own words for tea that are not derived from Chinese because they are in places where tea grows naturally, leading locals to develop their own way to refer to it
• Globalization is the spread of goods and ideas across the world
• "Novel" in this context means new or original