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10,000 BCE
Neolithic Revolution
The Neolithic Revolution was a giant change in how people lived. During this Revolution people changed from Nomads to a more agricultural type of living. When ancient civilizations start to form in the Fertile crescent, they stay there. When they found cereal grains it only gave them more of a reason to settle down. -
10,000 BCE
Farming
Farming helped the new civilizations in the fertile crescent get their food. In the fertile crescent was a abundance of wild cereal grains. After experimenting with the new found grain, people discovered that when left to ferment it turns into beer! This new discovery of beer helped new civilizations settle down and begin to grow their own crops. -
Period: 10,000 BCE to 1550 BCE
Beer
How the discovery of beer came about, and how it play a key role in the making of Mesopotamian and Egyptian History. -
3400 BCE
Writing
Beer was a large influence on the creation of writing. Forms of writing like pictographs in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia was invented originally to keep track of distribution of beer, grain and bread. -
2035 BCE
Payment and taxes
Beer, grains and bread were not only used as food. As they became more important in Sumerian culture, they became so influential in someones life that it was used as a currency, or a payment. Now laborers would be payed in these goods. This new system helped the Sumerian civilization employ 300,000 people. The distributions of these goods created Justification for Taxation. Beer also helped the idea of taxes. The goods were used as offerings to the gods but were sometimes collected for services. -
1550 BCE
Medicine
Beer helped develop the first medicines in Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations. Beer was often part of the recipe when it came to making medicine, other herbs and such would be added. The book of "Ebers Papyrus" Contained hundreds of herbal medicines with beer being apart of them.
