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What is it that humans cannot do without, next to breathe oxygen

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Humans cannot live without liquid refreshments

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How did early men ensure an adequate supply of fresh water some 10,000 years ago

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Early men got their water supply by living near rivers, springs, and lakes

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Name four roles that drinks have taken, or been a part of, over the years

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Some roles that drinks have been a part of over the years was for currencies, religious rites, political symbols, and artistic inspiration

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What are some periods that archeologists divide time into?

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The periods that archeologist divided time into was stone, bronze, and iron age.

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What is it about these drinks that the author says dominates the periods the embody

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The drinks that dominate the periods the embody is that each one defined drinking during a historical period from antiquity to the present day

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What makes beer so significant during its time

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beer was significant at this time because it was in the inhabitants wages and rations

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What makes wine significant during this time

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Wine was the lifeblood of the Mediterranean civilization and the basis of wast seaborne trade. This helped spread Greek ideas.

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What makes distilled alcohols significant during this time

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Distilled alcohols were used as currency to buy slaves

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What makes coffee significant during this time

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Coffee promoted clarity of thought. This was made the ideal drink for scientists, businessmen, and philosophers

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What makes tea significant during this time

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Tea contributed to the independence of the United States, the undermining of China's ancient civilization, and the establishment of tea production in India.

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What makes Coca-Cola significant during this time

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Coca-Cola is America's national drink and a vibrant consumer of capitalism.

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The author gives a very short rendition of the origins of Coke in the introduction.

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The origins of Coke was by a Atlanta pharmacist and it was devised as a medical pick-me-up

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What were the first beers made from

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The first beers was made from wheat and barely

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Beer is said to be fairly certain that wasn't around before what date, but was around, or widely spread, by this due date

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Beer wasn't around in 10,000 BCE but it widely spreaded in the Near East by 4,000 BCE

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Why is it ironic that the discovery of beer is located in Mesopotamia

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It was ironic because Mesopotamia had fertile land that can provide the ingredients

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Why was it consumed through the straw

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Beer was consumed by a straw so they can avoid the grains, chaff, and debris

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What helped Mesopotamia become the "Fertile Crescent" after the last ice age

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The uplands of Mesopotamia helped it become the fertile crescent since it had rich soil

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Describe how bereal grains were probably consumed before it became beer

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Grains were probably consumed by crushing and soaking them in water

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What was cereal grains unusual property

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Cereal grains were unusual because they could be stored for consumption for months or even years later iskept dry or safe

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There was an experiment conducted in the 1960's on harvesting wild grains. Summarize what the outcome of the experiment was

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The experiment that was conducted in 1960 for wild grains concluded into two pounds of grains. The archaeologist gathered that each grain family worked 8 hours a day for 3 weeks

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How did early man come about discovering the sweetness from grains

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Early men came about discovering the sweetness from grain was by moistening grains

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Describe the second step to the discovery of beer

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The second step to discovering beer was bappir

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What were the probable first alcohols in the world? What set beer apart from these first alcohols

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The first probable alcohols were wine and spirits. Beer was set apart from these because beer consisted grains and the others didn't

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How did they improve beer

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They improved beer by filtering out debris

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What gave more reliable results in this process of self-discovery

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Using the same container repeatedly gave more reliable results in this process of self-discovery

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Describe bappir and why would it only be used for edible consumption during lean times

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Bappir was used for edible consumption during lean times because it was eaten for food shortages

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What were "two-side of the coin"

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Brea was solid beer and beer was liquid bread

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What made drinking beer out of the same vessel a sign of hospitality? What tradition do we still practice today that continues this practice.

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Drinking beer was a sign of hospitality by signaling that the person offering the drink can be trusted

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Why was beer considered a gift from gods

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Beer was considered a gift from the gods because of its ability to intoxicate and induce a state of altered consciousness seemed magical

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Why kind of symbolic gesture is raising your glass during an event

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The practice of raising a glass is to wish someone good health, happy marriage, a safe passage to the afterlife, ot to celebrate success

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Out of the speculations stated in the book why early humans transitioned to farming. Which one can be determined is the author belief?

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Early humans transitioned to farming because of climate changes, species died, or species were hunted to extinction

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After farming took route in early societies, why would going back to hunter-gathering be difficult

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Hunting- gathering would be difficult because species were going extinct

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Why did beer help early society

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Beer helped early society because it was an extraordinary significance to the people of the people of the great civilization

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What did the storehouse of the surplus grain become

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The storehouse of the surplus grain became temples

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What groups of people were the first to experience entirely urban lives

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Administrators and craftsmen who did not work in the field lived in urban lives

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Why did villages possibly start to ban together around 4300 BCE to form larger cities?

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The lack of natural boundaries is what made the villages band together

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What does civilization mean?

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The word civilization means living in cities

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On top of being a national diet, what else was grain used for?

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Grain was used for being the logical medium of exchange

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What was the first literary reference to beer

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The first literary reference to beer was the Epic of Gilgamesh

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Enkidu becomes human after he does what

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Enkidu becomes human by drinking a lot

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Who was to blame for the "precarious" natures of Sumerian life? Why?

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Their capricious was blamed for the precarious because of it's behavior

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Describe the pictogram for beer? Now draw it

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The pictogram for beer has a jar with two straws and two people drinking the beer through the straws

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Describe how Hathor became the goddess of beer and brewing in Eqypt

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Hathora became the goddess af beer and brewing by becoming intoxicated, falling asleep, and forgetting her bloody mission

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Which civilization had a stronger disapproval of drunkness

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The apprentice scribe in Egypt had a strong disapproval of drunkenness.

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Give examples of two phrases with beer mentioned in it that had a different meaning

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"Take not upon thyself to drink a jug of beer" "...to sit in the beer hall"

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What were surpluses officially considered

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Surpluses were officially considered when it was consumed by a temple bureaucracy or traded for goods and services

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How were priests depicted

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Priest were depicted by wearing beards, long kilts, round headdresses, and drinking beer from large pots.

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What were clay "envelopes" called

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Clay envelopes were called tax receipts

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What replaced tokens

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Envelopes replaced token

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What was the primary source of food for most people

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Beer, onions, dates, and the ration was the primary source of food

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Writing started out as a means for recording

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Writing started out for recordig taxes receipts and ration payments

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How did cuneiform come about

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The cuneiform came about by recording the location of beer

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WHere would we find the world's oldest recipe for beer? What was the story

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We would find the world's oldest recipe for beer in Mesopotamia. The story behind it was that Enki was preparing a feast for this father Enkil

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What made beer an ideal currency form

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Beer was the ideal currency because it was a liquid since it's easily divisible.

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Describe what "bride price" is

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The bride price is a wedding payment that is made by the groom's family to the bride

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By 2035 BCE, how many state employed people were there

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By 2053 BCE there was 300,000 people that were employed

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Since workers at the Giza Pyramids were paid with so much beer, what did some call themselves

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Since the workers at the Giza Pyramids were paid with beer some of them called themselves "Drunkards of Menkaure"

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The term " bread and beer" is used as an everyday greeting similar to...

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Bread and beer was similar to "food and drink"

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What ensured the development of young school kids health

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Two jars of beer and three loaves of bread developed young school kids health

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Beer is logical choice to be used in early medicine because of what reason

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Beer was used for medicine because it was a mild sedative and a concoction with herbs and spices

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In religious texts that mentioned "beer that would not turn sour" meant what two things

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"beer that would not turn sour" means to pursue beer but hard to store it

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What practice still around today is a surviving symbol of beer's magical properties

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Toasting is the surviving symbol of beer;s magical properties

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