Kahn, Jeffrey P. "How Beer Gave Us Civilization." Nytimes.com. The New York Times, 16 Mar. 2013. Web. 27 Sept. 2016. This article presents an explanation of how the beer has led to the human civilization. The author starts off by addressing that humans were restricted socially. Lifesaving social instincts such as artistic expressions, romance, and inventiveness didn’t lend themselves to the development of human civilization. The author goes on to describe that, the only thing that freed up the rigid social codes that restricted people was the invention of beer. The author notes that this accidental discovery is unknown but it was discovered 10,000 years ago. The author explains the current theory that most people believe that many people stored …show more content…
The author gives an elaborate explanation on the history of the beer and how the beer has led to the development of human civilization. The article has a lot of outside sources such as researches and theories that support the author’s point. According to this article, beer has played an important role in human civilization and the article points out a lot of examples on how beer was important to the people of the people for a lot of purposes. This article also uses some credible information from the research to explain how the beer was made and how it was first discovered. Finally, the article proves the point that beer has helped to improve the human …show more content…
It’s a possibility, some archaeologists say.” The author continues by noting that people did the hard work to cultivate grains for feasts and important community gatherings. Beer is sacred stuff in most traditional societies. The main point is since people had to stay to look over their crops, people settled at a permanent place and then they were coming into contact with other people more often, spurring the establishment of social customs. The author continues to talk about the history of the grains and agriculture. Hayden, who is an archeologist talks about that when there are feasts, it would be expensive to serve and prepare food but beer would be cheap and could be afforded by the majority of people. This is the one of the for the people that motivated them to cultivate cereal grains. The author continues to note that, feats are essential for people because it would bring the people closer together and creating the supporting network and developing more complex kind of societies. Beer played a huge role in making a feast beautiful. The brewing of beer has also developed new technologies which made the people’s life a lot easier. Finally, beer has made human’s life more enjoyable and
Most people point to wars, Presidents or the economy when asked to describe the history of the United States, but what about alcohol. Social history in general has always taken a back seat to political and economic history, mostly because many aspects of social history are not exactly bright spots from the past. Alcohol, for example, is actually a much bigger aspect of our history than one may expect. As a matter of fact, early America was centered around drinking as a kind of social event. William Rorabaugh’s book Alcoholic Republic outlines how prevalent drinking really was during the years after the Revolutionary War. Rorabaugh argues that post-colonial Americans should be considered alcoholics. However, the evidence Rorabaugh uses
Alcohol has always been a part of feminine culture, but it took a dramatic shift in the early 20th century. In the book, Domesticating Drink, Catherine Murdock argues that during this period, women transformed how society drank and eradicated the masculine culture that preceded this shift. Murdock draws from a few different sources to prove her argument, such as: etiquette manuals published after the turn of the century and anecdotes from the time period. She provides many interesting and unique perspectives on how drinking culture evolved, but she shows a clear bias towards “wet” culture and also makes very exaggerated claims that turn her argument into something that is nearly impossible to completely prove.
Tom Standage has described the beginnings of six beverages: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola and has found many connections, and information helpful in finding out history of the drinks themselves but also their impacts on the growth of civilization as a whole. This book connects everything with society both past and present, it makes learning about history and the way drinks connect fun and interesting. Like learning without even realizing you are. A History of the World in Six Glasses is more than just talking about each beverage as a single but as a whole, it’s connections, uses, relations, and growth they started.
In the book, A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom standage, is about Standage trying to validate that these six drinks (Beer, Wine, Spirits, Tea, Coffee, and Coca-Cola) are what help create a path for America, human history, and the development in history. In the introduction of the book, Standage voices that “Drinks have had a closer connection to the flow of history than is generally acknowledged, and a greater influence on its course. Understanding the ramification of who drank what, and why, and where they got it from…” (5) Standage is an Author and Journalist from England. His book A History of the World in 6 Glasses helps probe the development of history and social branching. In the book civilization and globalization is also a key point because Standage believes that those six drinks are what created a catalyst for each drink to shape the world around us.
During these times, domestic violence was commonplace and many blamed alcohol as the culprit. Reformers also noticed that alcohol decreased efficiency of labor and thought of alcohol as a menace to society because it left men irresponsible and lacking self control. One reformer, named Lyman Beecher, argued that the act of alcohol consumption was immoral and will destroy the nation. Document H depicts the progression of becoming a drunkard from a common m...
A History of the World in 6 Glasses is broken down into six sections, one for each drink, the first of which is beer. Man's first civilizations...
It is not common that when one thinks of the history of the world that the thought of beer, wine, spirits, tea, coffee, or even Coca-Cola comes to mind. Matter of fact, the thought of a beverage having an impact in history may be the very last thing that comes to mind. But according to Tom Standage in his book A History of the World in 6 Glasses, he argues that these six drinks have had an all-round influence in the history of the world. It is hard to imagine that the drinks we know of today, were the foundation and building blocks of the history that has been engraved in us. As to which beverage has had a greater impact in history, it is a matter of the extent to which each particular drink has contributed to influencing, not just people, but the course of history. Not diminishing the impact of the other beverages, but coffee has had a greater impact in history over tea and the other drinks.
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Many Americans, religious leaders, and political leaders saw alcohol as the key to all that was evil, a curse on the nation. Significant numbers of people believed that the consumption of alcoholic beverages presented a serious threat to the integrity of their most vital foundations, especially the family (“Prohibition” 846).
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World history has always been a series of cause and effect: a web that connects itself through different ideas, peoples, and inventions. Tom Standage in A History of the World in Six Glasses explores how one of those constantly evolving inventions is a common thread throughout all of human history – the invention of drinks. This book demonstrates how different kinds of drinks have affected world events through every social class. Although the idea of viewing history through the eyes of drinks does not seem like a common one, when one thinks about how drinks have pervaded through all aspects of society – social, political, and economical – and how they have provided a nuanced lens of history, it seems like an obvious way to inspect humanity’s past.
sounds like you are going to have one awesome informative essay. I would like to think of myself as a person who enjoys his beer, but never tried to make any myself. I have a few co-workers who make there beer that turn out pretty good. I am interested in reading the draft of this that time comes. Until then take care.
Agriculture is quite possibly the most important advancement and discovery that humanity has made. It produces the one thing that we need the most: food. It has been around since 9500 BC, and can be the oldest sign of mankind’s acumen and the development and evolving of our minds and creations. Agriculture has been mastered throughout hundreds of years and is one of our most important resources on Earth, along with water and fossil fuels. Although the older farming methods from ancient times seem somewhat mediocre and barbaric, they were very ingenious and advanced for that time period. Over thousands of years, we have improved the way agriculture is used, how land is cultivated, the various techniques of farming and irrigation, and the tools and mechanics used. Numerous things that we see as aboriginal today, such as using a hand plow, were extremely contemporary in ancient times, and played key roles in the development of man and society, since quick labor was not abundant before this time. We are now extremely advanced in agriculture and irrigation and the tools used to farm and grow and harvest crops. We have learned from our past and ancestors how to grow and evolve in our methods and have advanced forward greatly.
The problem of alcohol use is very relevant nowadays. Today alcohol consumption characterized by vast numbers in the world. All of society is suffering from this, but primarily jeopardized the younger generation: children, teenagers, young people, and the health of future mothers. Because alcohol is particularly active effect on the body that are not formed, gradually destroying it. The harm of alcohol abuse is evident. It is proved that when alcohol is ingested inside the body, it is carried by blood to all organs and has harmful effect on them until destruction. Systematic use of alcohol develops a dangerous disease such as alcoholism. Alcoholism is dangerous to human health, but it is curable as other diseases. The big problem is that most of the alcohol products which are made in private places contain many toxic substances, defective products often leads to poisoning and even death. All this has negative impact on society and its cultural values.