How a Bean Toppled Empires
A berry found by goats built global economies, fueled revolutions, and demanded millions of slaves.
The global coffee industry is worth 269 billion dollars. It employs 25 million farmers across 50 countries. But this isn't a story about a drink. It's the story of a small, red, unremarkable fruit that was brewed by Sufi monks as a spiritual technology, banned by sultans and popes, and used to build the modern financial system — from Lloyd's of London to the French Revolution. From Ethiopian highlands to slave plantations to your morning cup.
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Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.