A History Of The World

The idea that the humans were beginning to enter a period of progress, and abandon the way of their hunter-gather lifestyle is repeated in these paragraphs. The concept of this dramatic shift is essentially the main subject. Although there is little information within the two sections that regard the presence of beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt, I believe Thomas Standage wanted the reader to know that beer was an important aspect of the daily lives of the people in Mesopotamia and Egypt of all levels within the social classes.

Wine has also impacted the world in many ways. If wine hadn 't been invented or discovered we would not have vineyard farming today. Wine was a very popular drink during the Roman and Grecian era. In fact wine was the main drink. Greek and Roman men would have get togethers called symposia. The sophisticated, formal, and intellectual atmosphere of the symposion reminded the Greeks of how civilized they were. It reminded that they weren 't just there to drink wine, they were there to discuss many things as well. Wine

1) From which advanced civilization did Europeans get the ‘science’ of how to make spirits?

Wine has been a part of Western history since the Neolithic Period (8,500-4,000 B.C.), when cultures first started to develop permanent communities, and stopped being nomadic hunter-gatherers (U. Penn, 2000). One of the earliest written records of the consumption of wine is recorded in the Bible and the impact of wine on Mediterranean cultures became more pronounced over the years as the geopolitical situation stabilized in the region under the Roman Empire. Roman Imperialism helped to spread the production of wine across most of the countries in the Empire, which included most of North Africa and Southern Europe (Britannica, 2000). During that same era, wine became ingrained in the Christian faith and is still used in Christian mass today. The close tie between wine and the Christian faith aided to the spread of wine production and wine consumption across Europe

People used wine to show that they are successful and have a higher social status ranking than others, leaving the ones who weren't wealthy and unsuccessful without wine. This began the first socially/economically divided empires. It was used in religious ceremonies, and used medicinally to heal wounds.

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

6. Wine is a part of a Catholic ritual where wine symbolizes the blood of Jesus Christ and Christianity began in the Roman Empire and became an important force in Europe after the change between Emperor Constantine. Wine was also uses for medical purposes as a pain killer.

Beer: Beer was not invented, it was discovered. Exactly when the first beer was brewed is unknown but there was almost certainly no beer before 10,000 BCE. The rise of beer was closely associated with the domestication of the cereal grains rom which it is made and the adoption of farming. Beer originated in the Fertile Crescent in Egypt and Mesopotamia. To beer drinkers in the Neolithic period, beer’s ability to intoxicate and induce a state of altered consciousness seemed magical. This caused them to believe beer was a gift from the Gods. Since it was a gift from the gods, it was presented as a religious offering in religious ceremonies, agricultural fertility rites, and in

2D: Wine was a major part of Greek and Roman culture and trade, and played a significant role in shaping these two empires. In certain religions, medicine plays a big role in shaping them, such as the miracles that Jesus was said to have performed.

The relationship between alcoholic beverages and religion goes back thousands of years. The use of wine is at the heart of many Christian Religions and important Jewish ceremonies are marked by drinking a prescribe number of glasses. The Ancient Egyptians believe the much worship god Osiris. The ancient Egyptians made at least 17 types of beer and even more varieties of wine used for pleasure, nutrition, medicine, ritual and funerary purposes. In Babylon, the people worships wine deities,

At the same time, it shows how the world progresses. For example, wine was thought to be a drink for the noble and for the mighty; only high-ranking members of the hierarchy were able to drink wine, such as educated men in Greek symposiums. Soon enough, wine became more available and was then drunk by the masses, instead of beer; even slaves ended up drinking wine. However, wine still made the clear distinction between those who were powerful and those who were not—the most prestigious individuals drunk the rarest and heaviest wines while the least prestigious such as the slaves drunk light and putrid wine. This shows the development of social structures and the progress of history as there were now clearly-marked different social classes that would influence the world for years to come. I decided to choose this example because I always thought that the drinking of wine meant one was wealthy, but I found out it was more influential than I thought, and although it was drunk by the wealthy, it was also quite omnipresent among different

Since then, wine has become a staple in the christian celebration of Easter and other special occasions. It’s intriguing how one drink has not only formed a practice of it’s own, but is a critical part of a religion. Standage then moves on to discuss the practice of tea drinking in Britain which dates back to the Industrial Revolution. Around the world, Britain’s empire flourished with the acceptance of pristine tea drinking and the “historical impact of its empire [...] can still be seen today” (150). The drinking of beer in pubs, the use of wine in religious ceremonies, and the esteemed tea

The Romans drank a lot of wine but not straight or quickly. “Diluting wine and drinking with restraint were ordinary courtesy. The purpose of a dinner party was relaxed

This attitude of sex and drunkenness is often associated with the ancient Greeks and Romans, who Rochester makes reference to through Cupid and Bacchus. The wine serves as a tool to rid oneself of their grasp on reason. It often drives away the feeling of anxiety that often exist between a man and women during times of intimacy. It allows one to satisfy their bodily pleasure.

Beer and wine might have been one of the first drinks that caused humans to civilize and create a great community. In fact Tom Standage introduces us to this idea of these early drinks shaping human culture in his book A History of a World in Six Glasses. As Standage informs us about how beer was one of the causes in early settlement, and why farming was led to a great success because of the use of beer. Standage also mentions a start in traditions and a formation of government due to these drinks. Although beer being very important, Standage also introduces us to wine as a form of a class status that helped man distinguishing barbarism to a world of high standards and manners allowing for the community to become more cultured and