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Beer was discovered and can be considered a "happy accident" because of all the influence it had on the world. It was discovered when gruel was left sitting out for a few days and fermented which caused it to give an intoxicating taste.
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Wine is discovered with the Eurasian grapevine in Greece.
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There was a tax on food such as beer, bread, and grains. Some of the earliest writings were the tax records from such.
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Beer was said to be a civilized beverage. Mesopotamian writing shows that the consumption of beer was what made you "fully human" and civilized. This was something that was considered to be true by many societies.
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Beer was a large factor in causing people to leave a nomadic lifestyle and adopt farming and agriculture which makes our society the way it is today!
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Tea was first brewed in China! (good news for me, I live on tea!)
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Beer would be used as a "Bride Piece" or a payment the grooms family paid to the brides family which was one of the earliest forms of currency.
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A popular way to exchange ideas and conversations is over a cup of coffee which is still practiced today
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Coke was made to be purchased for 5 cents a bottle for soldiers during the war.
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Coke became a signature American drink during WW2 and it became extremely popular.
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John Pemberton was creating a medicine to prevent headaches and ended up creating coka-cola which at the time had cocaine in it.
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To pay for the tea from China, Britain payed China in opium which opened up cultural diffusion.
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There was so much tea smuggling into Britain that less people were purchasing tea from the London tea company so they had to create the tea act to help the struggling company.
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To protest the tax on tea, protestors emptied tea off of ships into the harbor which is one of the first events of the revolution.
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Joseph Priestly invented soda water which was the beginning to carbonated drinks.
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Rum helped the people who were the poor, lower class people be the top class of the new world
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Creating beer was difficult in the Americas so Rum became the new popular drink.
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Rum was a popular drink in the Navy but because it made the sailors so drunk they were forced to dilute it with water which then created Grog.
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Coffee was used to prevent sore eyes and headaches and could be found at local coffee shops.
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A new drink became known as Rumbullion which was distilled wine with pure sugar. It was named after a fight and is what we know today as Rum.
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The first coffee house was found at a college where students could grab a cup during free time... not much different than today!
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Tea caused a massive trade between China and France which led to more cultural diffusion.
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Arabia was the coffee capital until it was known how to grow it all over the world.
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King Charles was sick and they thought diluted wine would be a type of cure. He was then lit on fire by a servant because of the flammability of alcohol
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Wine was drank at the inauguration of a King which caused wine to be viewed as something that wealthy people indulge in which even today wine is viewed as "fancy".
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Coffee replaces a light wine or beer as the popular breakfast drink because it had the power to wake you up.
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Islam was opposed to drinking wine because of a fight that occurred after a feast that wine was consumed at. Wine is important in Christianity and is now what is used as a metaphor for the "blood of christ"
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Plato said that wine exposes who you truly are and what your true intentions and personality are.
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With the more vineyards that opened up, wine became cheaper and could now be consumed by kings and peasants alike.
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Coke became the leading carbonated drink which contributed to the rise of the US and helped with globalization.
