Ap World History Research Paper

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1. Beer has led the past civilizations such as the Mesopotamians and Egyptians to amazing discoveries. Mesopotamians and Egyptians both saw beer as part of their culture, that they decided to use beer and bread as a currency. Individuals of all ages took interest in beer and decided to create more advanced tools and techniques in order to gather more grain, however it caused them to abandon the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and instead adapt to farming. The significance of beer has varied as time went on, for example, people have incorporated beer into religious ceremonies, funerals, celebrations, and sometimes they are used as sacrifices to gods.
2. Wine represents power, privilege, wealth, importance, and it became popular in Greece and Rome, however it was Greece who had all the access to grapes. Since Greece had an abundance of grapes due to their right climate, it eventually became widespread, making it available to others all around the world. A war between Sparta and Athens occurred but both seemed more concerned about their grapevines, showing that both value the importance of wine. Wine can serve for many purposes such as in symposiums, drinking parties, safer drinking water, and they can clean and purify wounds. Social classes held an importance role
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Spirits were highly used during sea voyages during the age of exploration and common examples of spirits were rum, whiskey, and brandy. Rum played a critical role for North America, Britain, and Africa in the triangle trade, because rum was used as a currency to pay for slaves, and sugar was intertwined with slaves. During the colonial times, there was a trade war in the sugar act, molasses act, boycott imports, taxation without representation, and a whiskey rebellion which out broke by Pennsylvanian farmers due to tax on distilled spirits. Rum was considered a globalized drink of oppression and spirits have led the past to the spread of technology, expiration, diseases, trade revolutions, and many