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Period: 10,000 BCE to 4000 BCE
The Record Of Beer (Beer)
During the time of the Paleolithic Age, there were no signs of beer but there were some evidence of farming. People don't know exactly when beer was discovered but they can say that beer was widespread by 4000 BCE -
Period: 10,000 BCE to
The Record Of Wine (Wine)
They have evidence of wine first being produced around this time. Wine was considered a precious liquid, a formal drink, and extremely expensive. I was an emblem of pride, prosperity, and a privilege. -
Period: 7000 BCE to 5000 BCE
Fertile Crescent (Beer)
Because beer was safer to drink,and because it was easy to make, farming became very important to the people living near the Fertile Crescent. There was a decrease in hunting and gathering, and new irrigation techniques began. Humans also started to create permeant villages which made it easier to create a surplus of food. Survival became easier for humans. -
6000 BCE
Pottery (Wine)
Pottery was invented around this time and it made wine making a lot easier. -
Period: 3400 BCE to 3000 BCE
The Idea Of Writing (Beer)
During the time beer was becoming popular, writing began to emerge. They say that the oldest written document found had the age of 3400 BCE in clay. Towards 3000 BCE, symbols started to depict sounds. The oldest recipe found was for beer. Writing was originally a way to record the collection and distribution of grain, beer, bread, and other goods. -
Period: 2737 BCE to 2697 BCE
The First Tea (Tea)
In the Chinese Tradition, they believe that the first tea was brewed by their emperor Shen Nung. Shen Nung was the second (legendary) emperor. He invented the idea to use agriculture an plowing in farming. He also discovered herbs. -
2350 BCE
The God-Like Drink (Beer)
Priests would lay out beer in ceremonies and varieties were mentioned in "Pyramid Texts''. Mesopotamians believed that beer was mythological and ancient with its origins. According to the Egyptians, beer was given the credit for saving humankind's destruction. They created a tale of the Sun God Ra and the Goddess Hathor to tell the story of human kind almost being destroyed. -
1800 BCE
A Hymn And An Epic (Beer)
The Epic Of Gilgamesh and The Sumerian Hymn to Ninkasi were both written down around this time. Both of them had the use of beer in them. -
Period: 970 BCE to 900 BCE
Distilling And Hitting The Books (Spirits)
Between 970-900 CE the Europeans started to learn how to distill Wine. Distillation can happen when you are vaporizing a liquid and then you recondense the liquid in order to operate and purify its constituent parts. Public Libraries also started to spread around this time. They even made a learning center called Cordoba in Arab. People started advancing in certain areas like mathematics, astronomy, medicines, and philosophy. Modern numerals were also used. -
870 BCE
The Greatest Feast In History (Wine)
King Ashurnasirpal of Assyria hosted a large feast that contained 10,000 jars of wine and 10,000 jars of beer. He preferred wine because it was more expensive and showed he was in a higher class. -
323 BCE
The Death Of Alexander The Great (Wine)
Alexander killed his great friend Clitus while they were fighting drunk. Alexander had the tendency to drink wine that was not mixed with water. Evidence can prove that Alexander died from an illness you can get from drinking too much unmixed wine. -
170 BCE
A Life Saver (Wine)
Wine started being used as medicine. It would be used to disinfect gladiator wounds and body humors and fevers. The less bitter the wine, the better the for medical purposes. -
Period: Jan 1, 618 to Jan 1, 907
Tea Spreads Throughout China (Tea)
Tea became the national beverage in the Tang Dynasty. This was considered to be around the same time as their golden age. A golden age is a time of peace and happiness when things begin to advance and people learn about new things that can advance the dynasty or civilization. -
Period: Jan 1, 960 to Jan 1, 1279
Tea Moves To A New Dynasty (Tea)
Tea moved from the Tang Dynasty to the Sung Dynasty. Sadly, all good things must come to an end. This was the time when the powerful Mongols took over China. The leader of the Mongols was a strong man named Genghis Khan. He was accompanied by his son as they conquered large areas of land and huge dynasties. -
Jan 1, 1300
Write It Down (Spirits)
During the 1300's, people were making medicines out of distilled wines. They believed the distilled wine would preserve youth, treat diseases of the brain and nerves, improve memory, help your joints, revive the heart, cure speech defects, calm toothaches, cure paralysis, and protect your body from the plague. This is when they started writing down instructions for distilling drinks. -
Period: Jan 1, 1368 to
Ceremony With Tea (Tea)
The Mongols started the Ming Dynasty. The preparation of tea became very elaborate. You had to follow the instructions step by step because of how detailed it was.They used tea for multiple religious ceremonies. It was as that tea forms a spiritual and bodily refreshment. -
Jan 1, 1430
Print It! (Spirits)
By the 1430's, a man named Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press. This was important because it cut the time shorter to type it rather than to write it. If it wasn't for his idea, i don't know if we'd have keyboards and computers to type and print our papers today. -
Jan 1, 1510
Reaching New Places (Coffee)
By 1510, Coffee reached the Arab world around Mecca and Cairo. They consider coffee to be a social drink such as beer. They even made coffee houses where they can all sit and socialize with each other. They believed coffee was unnatural because it had the ability to make someone sober. -
Jun 1, 1511
Banning What The People Love (Coffee)
Like Wine and Spirits, some people tried to banned coffee. The first attempt to banned Coffee was by a religious leader in Mecca in June 1511. A man named Kha'ir Beg had the responsibility for maintaining public mortality. He put coffee on trial. Khal'ir won the trial and coffee was prohibited in Mecca. Sometimes, coffee customers were beaten as a punishment. -
Period: Jan 1, 1524 to Jan 1, 1539
There's No Stopping It (Coffee)
After the first attempt to banned coffee, there were more people trying to get rid of this drink. In Mecca 1524, they tried to close down coffee houses. Cairo also tried to shut down coffee houses in 1539. The trials were short lived. The plan to eliminate coffee ultimately failed. Coffee became widespread -
The Great Fire Of London (Coffee)
Coffee Houses were everywhere, but a lot of them were destroyed in what we know it as The Great Fire Of London. The city of London was very dry for they were experiencing a drought at the time. The fire started in a bakery in Pudding Lane. It didn't help that most of the houses were made of wood and straw. Because of the fire, when people started to rebuild there houses, they would build them with brick and farther apart to prevent the disaster to happen again. -
The New Magic Drink? (Coffee)
In the year 1674, an anonymous poem declared that "Coffee, however, was heralded as sobriety among the Nations". It was later said in the book that "Coffee sobers you up instantaneously". I was said that coffee could make someone drunk feel more alert. -
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The Acts (Spirits)
The Stamp Act was passed in 1765. It imposed a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
The Townshend Act was passed in 1767. It was a law that placed duties on tea, paper, lead, and paint that were to be imported to America.
The Tea Act was passed in 1773. It was made to reduce the amount of tea held by the British. -
The Party That Wasn't Exactly A Party (Spirits)
The Boston Tea Party was a big moment in history in 1773. It was a revolt by the Sons Of Liberty lead by John Adams. They threw roughly 46 tons of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Carbonation? (Coca Cola)
In 1797, Joseph Priestly invented carbonated drink. He eventually made a book talking about how to carbonate soda water. This later became helpful when they created Coca Cola and other soda's. -
The Name Coca-Cola (Coca Cola)
Around May, 1886, a name with the last name Pemberton, created a formula for a carbonated drink. After he was happy with the formula, he launched the drink and it became very popular. The drink was named coca cola after its ingredients such as the coco leaves. If you were to chew a ball of coco leave, you would have tiny quantities of cocaine, a very addictive drug. Cocaine was isolated from the coco leaves in 1855. Opium was also present in the drink. Both were very addicting. -
Popularity Of Coca Cola (Coca Cola)
Coca Cola became a huge success. Because of the ingredients, many people were addicted to the taste of it. We still drink this beverage today. -
Bye-Bye Alcohol (Coca Cola)
July 1, 1886 alcohol went on a two year trial period. This was because Fulton and Atlanta county voted to prohibit selling alcohol. Because of this action, people had to start finding new drinks to get addicted to. This was the gate way to Coca Cola. -
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound (Coca Cola)
Around the year 1895, Lydia Pinkham created a medicine. This medicine was used to cure neuralgia, stomach, heart, liver, kidney, blood and skin disease like magic. People started going to Pinkham for medical advice -
The Trade To The Portuguese (Tea)
After many years, the Chinese decided to set up a trading post with Portugal. The Chinese believed that Europeans were barbarians and they were unclean because of the plague and diseases they carried. This is why they did not want to set up and trading posts with them. After a long time they finally agreed and Europe now had tea!