Comprehensive Analysis and Response for "A History of the World in 6 Glasses"
Jamachi Eluchie
Comprehensive Analysis and Response for A History of the World in 6 Glasses
1. Beer influenced the transition from hunting and gathering to agricultural based societies because it gave people a keen interest in grain storage. Beer was discovered as gruel, a mixture of water and grain, that was heated. It stimulated a dopaminergic release, causing the people that experienced the flavor to yearn for that rewarding sensation more. Standage noted that people could store a pound of grain a year, which caused the transition away from the savage – minded lifestyle even more appealing (13). Beer is a drink used to relax and celebrate, and seeing that the world functions through the ability to communicate, beer was extremely valuable to the people of the time period. In addition, it is possible that a trade-off of some sort was made possible, as some would convert to beer-making and exchange their craft for meat and berries. In the book, it was said that beer “was truly the defining drink of those first great civilizations,” and these various new abilities brought into play through beer makes this understandable (30). All of these positive and attractive new possibilities are ways that beer influenced the switch from the traditional hunt – and – gather mentality to a more society – oriented lifestyle with agriculture.
2. Wine drinking was a celebrational pastime or a way to simply relieve stress, especially in days of rigorous manual and physically demanding labor. Well, for the men at least. Women were extremely subservient to men in those times, and men were the hard workers who would sometimes discuss their daily affairs over a drink. Women were often left out of all entertainment that involved men and wine, for they were seen as inferior to men. Only the women that pleased and played with the men during the celebrations could partake in wine drinking. After all, wine was an exotic drink (46) and therefore, it was reserved for the wealthy, the
Comprehensive Analysis and Response for A History of the World in 6 Glasses
1. Beer influenced the transition from hunting and gathering to agricultural based societies because it gave people a keen interest in grain storage. Beer was discovered as gruel, a mixture of water and grain, that was heated. It stimulated a dopaminergic release, causing the people that experienced the flavor to yearn for that rewarding sensation more. Standage noted that people could store a pound of grain a year, which caused the transition away from the savage – minded lifestyle even more appealing (13). Beer is a drink used to relax and celebrate, and seeing that the world functions through the ability to communicate, beer was extremely valuable to the people of the time period. In addition, it is possible that a trade-off of some sort was made possible, as some would convert to beer-making and exchange their craft for meat and berries. In the book, it was said that beer “was truly the defining drink of those first great civilizations,” and these various new abilities brought into play through beer makes this understandable (30). All of these positive and attractive new possibilities are ways that beer influenced the switch from the traditional hunt – and – gather mentality to a more society – oriented lifestyle with agriculture.
2. Wine drinking was a celebrational pastime or a way to simply relieve stress, especially in days of rigorous manual and physically demanding labor. Well, for the men at least. Women were extremely subservient to men in those times, and men were the hard workers who would sometimes discuss their daily affairs over a drink. Women were often left out of all entertainment that involved men and wine, for they were seen as inferior to men. Only the women that pleased and played with the men during the celebrations could partake in wine drinking. After all, wine was an exotic drink (46) and therefore, it was reserved for the wealthy, the