Ap World History Dbq Essay

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23. “If the sun never set on the British Empire, then it was always teatime somewhere.” 24. Tea can reduce thirst, lessens the desire for sleep and hearten and help the heart. 25. The Mongols with Genghis Khan and his sons established the largest empire in history. 26. During the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE), China was the largest, wealthiest, and most populated empire in the world, that exported silk, tea, paper and ceramics. Regarded by most Europeans as the most sufficient country and lacked nothing from the outside world. While European countries often lacked materials and minerals so most European countries conquer other countries and establish colonies to exploit their riches and trade them with neighboring countries. In the civilization …show more content…

Coca Cola became such a well known American Icon because it was a suitable drink for everyday consumption by people of all ages unlike alcoholic drinks and wasn’t bitter like coffee and tea. Also, Coca Cola was always there during hard times in American like the Depression and the Prohibition period. It became well establish by people that journalist William Allen White declared “it was a sublimed essence of all America stands for…” 31. During World War II and the Vietnam War, wherever the American soldiers landed the Coca Cola Company followed, remained the soldiers of home and boosting their morale. The Coca Cola also made factories wherever they landed establishing themselves in every continent on Earth to every known countries and territories. Eventually, Coke represented the symbol of Western values like freedom, democracy, and free market capitalism. Still, it was well-loved by everyone, even the Soviet Union’s greatest military General Georgy Konstaninovich Zhukov took a liking in the drink that he had the Coca Cola company made a version of Coke in vodka bottles to avoid detection. 32. Coca Cola is the symbol of globalization because Coke is such a well establish company that the Coca-Cola Company operates over two hundred territories more than the members in the United Nations. Also across the world, Coca-Cola is the second most commonly understood phrase in the world, after “OK.”

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