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10,000 BCE
The Discovery of Beer
Beer wasn't invented like most modern things but discovered around 10,000 BCE in a area called the fertile crescent that housed the first settled communities. -
9000 BCE
The Adoption of Agriculture
Before 10,000 BCE humans were nomadic tribes that moved from place to place following food or after depleting an areas resources they simply moved, all this changed when farming came around. Humans were able to stay in one place and have a sustainable food supply -
6000 BCE
Pottery
Pottery was invented in around 6000 BCE and was the main instrument used in making storing and serving wine. It allowed humans to transport store and overall make wine and beer much easierly than before. -
4300 BCE
Civilization
From around 4300 BCE to 2000 BCE Mesopotamia grew to be huge cities with the majority of the population living within them. Beer and bread became a currency because of this when artisans and craftsmen flourished because they were being fed by the farmers that supplied everyone with food. -
3400 BCE
The Earliest Forms of Writing
Some of the oldest forms of written documents are dated back to arounfd 3400 BCE from the city of Urek where they documented information such as wages and rations for their owners. -
3000 BCE
Upgrades in Production
During the third millennium BCE Sumerian's drank from large vessels that were shared but during this time advances were made so it was possible to filter out the grains and other debris from the beer yet the Sumarians still drank from shared vessels most likely because beverages could be shared unlike most foods and sharing a drink with someone was a universal symbol of hospitality and friendship to this day. -
3000 BCE
Domestic Production of Vines
After the Pharaohs had developed a taste for wine they created their own vineyards on the Nile Delta to produce their own wine locally instead of importing it for the high prices but consumption was still restricted to the elite because of the unsuitable conditions for growing. -
870 BCE
The Great Feast
In 870 BCE King Ashurnasirpal II held a great feast for nearly 60,000 guests to show his immense power and wealth but the most impressive display of wealth he served at the feast was 10,000 skins of wine, wine at the time was 10 times more expensive to transport than beer so it was known as a exotic drink worth for consumption of the gods. -
800 BCE
Persia versus Greece
Conflict between the Greek speakers and the foregners began and eventually Persia tried to take Greece but failed each time. -
400
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great was able to unify Greece under one power and defeated Persia in the Fourth century and Greece became a force to be reckoned with by its neighbors. -
700
Vines in Greece
The cultivation of vines grew in the seventh century BCE starting in the lands of Arcadia and Sparta in the Peloponnese Peninsula and spreading up towards Athens, the Greeks were the first to produce wine on a commercial scale. -
1000
Cordoba
In the first millennium AD it was the most cultured and the greatest city in Western Europe, one of their many achievements was the technique of distillation which produced stronger alcohol and it was more compact. -
1430
Printing Press
The printing press was developed by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1430s in Europe even though it had been used in china for a few centuries before helped spread the work about new distilled alcohol and distillers published books explaining how to make them. -
1440
Slave Trade
In the 1440s the Portuguese began to ship black slaves from their trading posts and eventually bought them for European goods to be used for labor. -
1492
New World Discovery
in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered what is now the Americas he declared the islands ideal for growing sugar and on his second voyage back he took some sugarcane from the Canary Islands to try to grow the crop there in the new lands. -
1500
Sugar Trades
By the 1500s the Europeans had found the slaves to be an amazing resource of labor, they had turned Madeira into the largest exporter of sugar in the world. -
1500
Coffee
Coffee first became popular in Yemen in the mid 15th century and they first began turning it into a beverage instead of jsut eating the berries. -
1500
The Wine of Islam
Coffee was embraced as a legal alternative to alcohol by Muslims, coffee houses were erected like the taverns that sold alcohol in Europe. -
The Pope's Verdict
Shortly before the death of Pope Clement VIII he was asked to come to a verdict of Christians should drink coffee and what the church's position was on it. He deemed it fit to be drunken by the Christians. -
Proclamation for the Suppression of Coffee-Houses
on December 29th, 1675 King Charles II had passed the proclamation for the suppression of coffee houses to shut down coffee houses and their abilities of freedom of speech and to prevent people from speaking against him. -
Enlightenment
Enlightenment has given many thinkers and philosophers more information and knowledge on social and political spheres. -
The Sophisticated Coffee House
When a 17th century european businessman wants to hear about the latest news or any type or politics or scientific knowledge they would visit their local coffeehouse. -
Revolutionary War
in 1776 America finally had the last straw with Britain and began fighting back against their oppressors. Where the colonists faught against the British. -
The Arabian Coffee Empire
Until the end of the 17th century Arabia was unchallenged as the supplier of coffee to the entire world and ran a monopoly for as long as they could until the Dutch crippled their trade. -
The French Revolution
Camille Desmoulins set the French Revolution into effect, his leadership led Paris into chaos and the Revolution was in motion and couldn't be stopped.