A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage In A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage, there was many eras covered. The first era Standage covered was the Stone Age. The drink covered during the stone age was beer. During the stone age nomadic people in the near east started abandoning the lifestyle of hunters and gatherers. They began to start farming and settling down in villages creating the world's first cites. Standage focused especially on how beer affected Egypt and Mesopotamia. The second drink he covered was wine in Greece and Rome. This drink was covered during the first millennium BCE. During this time one of the greatest feasts was given by King Ashurnasirpal the second of Assyria around 870 B.C.E. to celebrate his mew capital at Nimrud. During this period of time the Rome were also advancing in math, architecture, and much more building off of the findings the Greek found. Rome even imitated some of their architecture. The third drink that was covered by Standage was spirits. This drink occurred during the colonial period. This period was towards the close of the first millennium AD. During this colonial period the greatest and most cultured city was Cordoba. Cordoba was advanced in …show more content…
I think it was cool getting to know how drinks were made and obstacles that were overcome to produce the drinks. However, I was not interested in the first three chapters about alcohol drinks. Alcohol does not affect me now so I did not want to know about alcohol. I did think the non alcoholic drinks were interesting though because I drink them. It was also interesting for me to know that Coca Cola contained coca in it. That was a interesting fact. However, my overall opinion of the book was that it was not that good. The book did not keep me interested or awake. It was all facts including facts that were just over detailed that I did not need to
The authors purpose was to entertain readers. It was not a book to inform because it doesn’t give facts about anything. It has a
There are two reoccurring themes throughout this book. The first theme is how the six drinks (beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and coca-cola) have impacted the world. The second theme is that each drink has some kind of medicinal purpose. Whether the drink did not work as a medicine or it did.
A) Unlike alcohol’s intoxicating effect, which made people sleepy and dulled their minds, coffee woke people up and made scientists, clerks, merchants and other businessmen more alert throughout the long workday. Coffeehouses also became places for people to exchange and listen to new ideas and theories in areas such as natural history, chemistry,
The author wants to show that beverages had a great impact on history. He wants to tell his
In reading a Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich you realize that history seems so much less complicated when you are the one standing back and reflecting on the past. You realize how easy it is to often forget that every single new idea, religion and war was a struggle that lasted generations upon generations. History is more than just a page or a story, its our account of the world. That goes to show how short life and history is, you realize that history is always repeating, war after war, peace then war. There are good and bad periods in history and its up to us to learn from them. In a way history is much like a human being it goes through stages, learns about life, and has inner struggles or wars about their ideas and their beliefs.
Personally, I did not enjoy the book. It didn't get all that interesting until the last couple of chapters. Before that, it spewed facts in my face and lacked an intriguing plot. I learned a lot from this book, but You would be better off reading a science journal, magazine, or website. Otherwise, it was an okay book.
When the Americas were just beginning to form, spirits accelerated their colonialism. At first, sugarcane production was introduced to the Western Indies or Caribbean Islands by Christopher Columbus. The West Indies land was not suitable to grow wine vines or grains for beer, instead Columbus introduced sugar canes to the Indies, creating a major sugar plantation in the West
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage is a non-fiction historical novel, whose main purpose is to show the surprisingly pervasive influence of certain drinks on the course of history. Then it takes the reader on a journey through time to show the history of mankind through the lens of beverages.
1. From which advanced civilization/culture did Europeans get the “science” of how to make spirits?
Water is believed to be the most quintessential and contributing drink towards the progress of the human race. While that may be the case, water was aided by many beverages that were developed over time. People were destined to eventually make, invent, find or discover these universal beverages, as described in A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage. He writes about six different beverages: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and Coca-Cola, which were all blown up to influence lifestyles, customs, cultures and more. While the six important beverages have not necessarily had a positive influence, they still demonstrate the different themes that define the progress of world history.
I did actually really like this book. I was not sure if I was going to enjoy it when the project was first assigned, but after reading for a while, I became really interested
Beer started out as gruel, and as the gruel fermented it turned into beer. Now it was not the first form of alcohol, but it was an important kind of alcohol. Beer was made from cereal crops, which were very abundant, and because it was so abundant it could be made whenever it was needed. They then found an even easier way to make beer by using beer-bread. Beer bread is basically everything needed to make beer in a loaf, making it convenient to store the raw beer materials. Beer started as just a social drink but then blossomed into a “hallmark of civilization”, as seen by the Mesopotamians. Grain was the basis of the national diet, it was
1. The author’s main thesis in setting up this book is that many drinks have built and brought together human history in to what we know about it.
All of the things that were said and done in the book are all at least somewhat true. Although, many of the
I really liked the book. It was very enjoyable to read. I would recommend it to my friends, because I think they