"A history of the world in 6 glasses" Timeline

Hunters and gathers soon turned Nomadic. They ended making huts and settling in the Fertile Crescent. The Firtle Crescent had rich soil and many cereal grains. The cereal grains could be stored for a long period of time before they went bad. People acidentky discovered beer when they realized that the grain soaked in water tasted sweet.

People started to collect these grains and wheat . Beer led to them having a huge growth in agriculture and thats what led to people farming. People stopped hunting and gathering and just settled down and farmed. Because of all of these events happening people started to go from the nomadic lifestyle and switched to a farming lifestyle.

Wine was first produced during the neolithic time period. In the Zagros Mountian range. There was three important factors in this area. There was the wild Eurasian grapevine, a great availability of cereal grains, and the invention of pottery.

This is when the first evidence of wine was dated back to. It was found in Hajji Firuz Tepe. a small neolithic village in the Zagros Mountains. Wines origin in this region is reflected in the biblical study of Noah. It talks about how he was said to have planted the first vineyards.

By this time beer had been spread all the way to the east. It had become so popular. A popular pictogram was found in Mesopotamia werre two figures appear to be drinking beer through reed straws from a pottery jar. This shows that people would share beer and would all drink from one container.

In Mesopotamia, people had to start writing things down because of all the transports of goods. People needed to know who had taken and paid what. People associated beer with an orderly lifestyle.

One of Egypts earliest rulers, King Scorpion 1 was buried with 700 hundred jars of wine. It was very expensive and imported from southern Levant. Levant was a significant wine-producing area at the time . Once Pharaohs acquired a taste for wine they had vineyards planted in the Nile Delta.

In the city of Crete, the vine was introduced. It wasn't native to the area before this. Grapevines were grown alongside wheat, barley , and olives. They were often intertwined with fig or olive trees. In Crete and on the Greek mainland wine was the elite drink.

We can see that they believed beer was a type of medicine. Many recipes they used to use involved beer. We know this because of an old medical text called "The Ebers papyrus". The Egyptians also believed that their way to the afterlife depended on having a full supply of bread and beer.

We can see that beer played a major role in peoples lives. Special sieves were found in the tomb of Tutankhamen. Ordinary people were also buried along with small jars of beer. This is because of them believing in the afterlife.