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10,000 BCE
The Neolithic Revolution
This is the period of time when man went from hunting and gathering to growing plants. They started to plant their own food and they started to domesticate animals. They also started to create villages. They would be close to water so they could still fish. Being near water also helped them with irrigation which was big. They also created many new tools at this time like pottery. -
10,000 BCE
Discovery of Beer
Once people started to plant their own food they were able to start making more complicated products like bread. They were able to collect a lot of grains that could be use to make many other goods because you can't just eat it raw. People would pound the grains to put them in soup. Then people started to pick more of the cereal crops which they could make beer from. Then after that it was just trial and error to find the best tasting beer. -
7000 BCE
Farming
Between 7000 BC and 5000 BC the production of plants and domestication of animals started to increase. They created new ways to irrigate the lowlands since they were so hot and dry. The huts in a village were made from the earth like clay. Outside of the village they would have more crops growing and a couple different types of animals. The rivers also helped them with irrigation and for food and water. -
3400 BCE
Oldest Documents
The oldest documents were made from clay tablets that could fit into your hand. The tablets were separated into different sections which made boxes. In the boxes there would be symbols. These symbols would be read from the top to bottom and left to right. Many of the tablets have the symbol for beer which shows that it was a big part of the history during that time. -
2700 BCE
Sumerian King
The Sumerian king was a man named Gilgamesh. His life story was incorporated in the written work, The Epic of Gilgamesh. This was a myth that was passed down from generation to generation. It was a story about his life with his friends. One of his friends starts out as a wild man in the wilderness but is shown what a civilization is by a women. Once he drank beer and ate bread then he becomes a human and can live in Uruk which was the city ruled by Gilgamesh. -
870 BCE
The Greatest Feast
Around 870 BC King Ashurnasirpal II had a feast to mark the inauguration of his new capital. He had a huge palace built that had large halls and a beautiful outside. It was the perfect place to have a feast. He tried to show how wealthy he was so he had as much food as he could. Even though the most common drink in Mesopotamia was beer he choose to have wine at the feast. -
800 BCE
The Odyssey
The Odyssey was a book written by a man named Homer. The book is about a mythical hero named Odysseus. This book is filled with many of the greek gods. In this book the drink that they have is wine. The gods don't water down their wine while everyone else does because only the gods can handle the pure wine. -
400 BCE
Persian War
The Persian war was fought between the Greek city-states and Persia which at the time was the worlds greatest superpower. During this time Alexander the Great brought together all of the Greek city-states and they were able to beat Persia. After they won they had pride in themselves so they would go drink wine at drinking parties or even symposia. Those were places where they would try to outdo each other in poetry or other literary works. -
161 BCE
Law passed in 161 BC
This law told you how much you could spend on the food you received each day and how much you could spend on leisure activities. Then later on they created different laws that had rules of what you could and couldn't do for weddings and funerals. They also told you what kind of meat you could preserve and what kind you couldn't. Then they started to regulate what foods you could eat all together. After that people had to make there dinning room windows facing outwards so they could check on you. -
Oct 10, 732
Battle of Tours
This was a major turning point in world history. This battle was fought in France and it was between people who followed Charles Martel and the Arab troops. In the end the Arab troops were defeated by the people who were with Martel. This lead to the period known as consolidation and eventual reinvigoration of European culture. -
Sep 1, 1430
The Printing Press
The printing press was created by a man named Johannes Gutenberg sometime during the 1430's. This invention made it possible to create books about anything and it was easier than writing it all out. Now people were able to share their findings on how to distill rum. This would help the growth of rum if other people were now able to learn how to do it. This helped to spread information without having to travel to the person and trying to remember the whole story. -
Aug 3, 1492
Discovery of the New World
The new world was discovered by Christopher Columbus when he was originally looking for a passage to the East Indies. He did not find the products that he was looking for but he did determine that the land was good for growing sugar. He also went back a second time in 1493 and he brought sugar cane. When he went back he tried to enslave the Indonesian people but it never worked out. -
Jun 1, 1511
Atempt to Ban Coffee
The governor at the time was a named Kha'ir Beg. He ended up actually putting coffee on trial. He believed that the effects of coffee were intoxication. So the council agreed with him and said that the selling of coffee should be prohibited. People who didn't listen would get punished and if coffee was found it was burned. A few months later higher authorities took control and the consumption of coffee was allowed again. -
Proclomation for the Surpression of Coffeehouses
The King believed that coffeehouses were evil and had dangerous effects on people. So he decided that the he would end the growth of the coffeehouses. He knew that no one would follow this law so he created another one that let the coffeehouses stay in business for 6 months if the owner paid five hundred pounds and swear to an oath. -
London Penny Post
Mail was sent out to people who lived in London or the suburbs right outside of London and the mail would only cost them a penny. Many coffeehouses were then being used as a mailing address. So now people whould go and pick up their mail and then they would get a cup of coffee. Some people would even check two times a day so they would order two drinks. This helped the growth of coffeehouses. -
Gravity Discussion
One night Hooke, Halley and Wren decided to meet at a coffeehouse to discuss their findings. The topic was the theory of gravity. They would talk about how there must be a force that holds all of the planets within the same loop. Hooke declared that he had found the mathematical proof to prove this theory. Halley didn't believe him so Wren told them that if they could find the theorem for this within two weeks then he would give them a book of 40 shillings, but they never did. -
Thomas Twining's Shop
He opened up a shop right next to a coffeehouse. Women weren't allowed to buy tea over the counter in coffeehouses so he made this shop for them. They would be able to buy a drink for there and then they could get dry leaves for preparation at home. At this shop he was able to blend things in with the tea to create the right flavor. This helped the shop become very successful. -
Molasses Act
This act put a tax on sixpence per gallon of molasses imported into the colonies from the French. The British were trying to force the colonies to get the molasses from them even though they didn't produce as much molasses as the French were. This would have been a problem because the distillers who made the rum would have to rise their prices and cut production. So this would have taken their favorite drink away from them. -
Sugar Act
The colonist had to pay taxes on sugar to help pay for the French and Indian War. This war was between the British and the Americans against the French. Once the British won they knew that they had total control of North America. This war put them in debt so that is when they passed the Sugar Act. The British believed that they fought the war for the American's so they also passed the Molasses Act. -
Booths at Lloyd's
Lloyd's was a place where ship owners and the underwriters could all meet. They could go there to hear all of the news and to go to auctions of ships and maybe some of the cargo. Lloyd started to handwrite the news so they could see what was going on. This started to bring more people to this meeting spot. In 1771 seventy-nine of them established the Society of Lloyds which was also very successful. -
Tea Act
This act was created to help the British East India Company create a monopoly on tea sales so their company would still survive. The company would have to pay the American duty of three pence per pound instead of paying the British import duty. This also gave them the right to tax the colonist for the tea. They thought that they would be grateful because the overall outcome would be to bring down the price of tea. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston tea party was a political protest by The Sons of Liberty. They dressed up as Mohawk Indians and boarded the three company ships in Boston Harbor. They only took three hours and in that time they were able to dump all of the chests of tea into the water. There was approximately 342 chests on all of the three ships. This lead to other events having to do with tea. -
Coercive Acts
These where events that were in response to the Boston Tea Party. The first one was passed because the British wanted to declare their authority over the colonies. This made the colonist mad because they wanted to be free so they fought back. This is the event that lead to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1775. -
Revolutioary War
The Revolutionary War was between the colonists who wanted freedom and the British. Paul Revere rode to warn the colonist that the British were coming. When he did this he stopped to get a drink called a rum toddy. Many people believe that the drink that is the most popular at this time was tea but it wasn't. When the soldiers went to fight many of them preferred to drink the rum and not tea. -
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
The War broke out when the Dutch were trading with the British enemies while they were at war. They fought for four years and finally it came to an end with a Dutch defeat. A year after the war ended the rival Dutch East India Company was dissolved which gave the British counterpart almost all control of global tea trade. -
Coca-Cola
Coca- Cola was first created by a man named John Pemberton. He was originally trying to create a cure for headaches. He had mixed all of the ingredients up and then he took it to the pharmacy so he could add soda water. When he did this it created a fizzy drink which we know is now Coca- Cola. -
Alcohol Prohibited
During this time Atlanta voted to prohibit alcohol for a two-year trial. At the time Coca-Cola's formula had alcohol in it. If Pemberton still wanted to sell his drink then he needed to come up with a new formula that was non-alcoholic. Once he created his new formula he could start selling his product to people of any age. -
Bottled Coca-Cola
Chandler let Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead have the right to bottle Coca-Cola. He was opposed to this idea at first because he believed that it would cost more to pay for the bottling rights and not get any profit from the idea. Once they were able to sell the product it could then be sold anywhere since it was in a bottle. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall divided Berlin in two. One of the sides was communist while the other side wasn't. When the Cold War started to end the person in charge of the communist party decided that it was time to let people cross the border. So that night at midnight people where allowed to cross the border. When the wall was torn down the communist side was welcomed by Coca-Cola. -
Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War was fought for about 6 months in Saudi Arabia. Iraq started the war when they believed that the Kuwait's behavior was not acceptable. They set up troops by the Kuwait's-Iraq border and that is when the US troops were sent over seas to help solve the problem.
