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Villages began to form cities that sat at the center of it's own system of fields/irrigation system
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Writing first began to emerge in Sumer, where the recorded history of beer and everything else began.
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Gilgamesh was the Sumerian King who ruled at this time.
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Beer is mentioned in documents from the third dynasty and several varities of it are mentioned in "Pyramid Texts"
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Sargon, ruler of the neighboring region of Akkad, ruled at this time. He referred to beer as apart of the bride price.
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A cuneiform tablet from the Sumerian city of Nippur contains a pharmacopoeia, which is a list of medical recipes, based on beer.
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A document from this time is a list of provisions paid out to official messengers in the city of Umma.
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Almost the entire population in southern Mesopotamia was living in a few dozen large city-states
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"The Ebers Papyrus", an Egyptian medical text contains hundreds of recipes for herbal remedies, many of which involved beer.
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Special sieves for beer making were found in the tomb of King Tut