A History of the World in Six Glasses – Flashcards
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symbol of beer
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-universal symbol of hospitality and friendship -offering to the gods
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main reason people took up farming
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-grain to make beer -greater amount of foods because of farming -civilizations grew because of excess food
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health benefits of beer
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-vitamins -protein -safer than water
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Mesopotamia
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where the world's first cities arose
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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-world's first greatest literary work -Endiku is saved from the wilderness by a woman who gives him beer and bread, and then he becomes a civilized human
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Scoripion I
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buried with 700 jars of wine
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Barbarians
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foreigners whose language sounded like random babbling to the Greeks
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Thucydides
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Greek writer and one of the world's greatest historians
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Symposium
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private men's drinking party with certain rules
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Plato
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man who thinks democracy is suspicious and lends too much power to people; compares wine to democracy
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Romans
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displaced Greek dominant power in Mediterranean
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Using Greek culture
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Romans used Greek language, literature, gods and myths, alphabet, and architecture
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Galen
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Marcus Aurelius's personal physician who was interested in discovering the world's best wine to cure wounds and regulate the body
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Golden Age of Rome
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ended by the death of Marcus Aurelius
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Importance of wine to Christians
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represented Christ's first miracle and Jesus' blood
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Halt of Islam advance in Europe
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Battle of Tours in 732 led to this
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Distillation
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process in which liquid is vaporized and condensed in order to purify and separate its constituent parts
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Importance of Alcohol in slave trade
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-African slavers demanded alcohol in return -one of the "legs" of the triangle of trade
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Belief of Thirteen Colonies
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England believed the 13 Colonies had the same climate as the Mediterranean, so it would then grow the same crops. The results were the complete opposite
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Rum in the Colonies
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-alleviated hardship -form of central heating -decreased dependence on England -used as currency for slaves -favored amongst soldiers
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Whiskey Rebellion
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-rebellion by farmers in Pennsylvania against the whiskey excise -significance: showed federal law needed to be of upmost importance and rebellions would not be tolerated
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Washington vs Jefferson
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Washington = whiskey maker Jefferson = said whiskey was poisonous; wine advocate
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Preference of Coffee
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-kept workers awake, alert, and clear of thought
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Legalization of coffee to Christians
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Pope Clement VIII loved the taste and aroma and granted approval of coffee to Christians
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Origin and Circumstances of Coffeehouses
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-mid-fifteenth century -under rule of Oliver Cornwall during English Civil War -alternatives to taverns
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Purpose of Coffeehouses
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-meeting place for businessmen -where ideas, gossip, info, and rumors where shared -mailing address
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The Wealth of Nations
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Adam Smith discusses how the government must let trade be to its own devices in order for it to prosper
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Coffeehouses
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centers of revolution
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Coffeehouses then and now
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remain places where gossip, rumors, ideas, and information is spread; meeting place for many business people
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Industrial Revolution
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new system of manufacturing in England
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Effects of Tea
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expanded European trade and profit fueled and funded workers in factories
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Chinese Beliefs
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China believed they were superior to all and did not need anything from anyone, especially Europe
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Adulteration
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-contaminated, mixed, not pure -prolonged life of tea because it was mixed with sawdust, ash and willow trees, flowers, etc
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Thomas Twining
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opened a tea shop and sold especially to woman
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Robert Arkwright
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British inventor who invented first modern factory
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Reasons for Britain becoming cradle of industy
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efficient infrastructure, Protestant work ethics, religious tolerance, , supply of coal, scientific tradition, fruits of empire, and *tea drinking*
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British East India Company selling opium to China
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-created opium in India -sold opium for silver -had opium shipped to China -turned Chinese into druggies -silver BEIC earned gave them enough money for tea
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Opium War
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-Chinese burnt British merchants' opium -short because of European advanced weaponry -British kept Hong Kong, opened five ports, demanded Chinese repayment in silver
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Cold War
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US defeated Soviet Union because of their advanced economy and technology
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Coca-Cola
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world's most recognized brand
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Coca Cola put on trial
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-safety of caffeine for children; misrepresentation of purity of cola -turned out safe and clearly represented
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Advertising to Children
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Coca-Cola advertised Santa drinking Coke to attract children
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Importance of Cola to servicemen
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-kept morale and reminded them of home -exempt from sugar-rationing because it was said to be necessary to maintain morale
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General Eisenhower and General Zhukov
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General Eisenhower - proponent of coke; had 3 million bottle shipped to his base twice a month General Zhukov - loved coke and had it made without color so he could drink it freely in Russia
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Coca-Colonization and Marshall Plan
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Coca-Cola spreading throughout the world Marshall Plan - program of financial help from the US to reconstruct Europe's economy
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Richard Nixon
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helped establish Pepsi in Russia
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Coke in Isral
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Coca-Cola announced they were going to open a bottling franchise in Tel Aviv Arab League boycotted Coke
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Correlation of Coca-Cola
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Coke correlates closely with greater wealth, quality of life, and political freedom
