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Alcohol History
Alcohol History
Alcohol History
ANCIENT PERIOD
EGYPTIAN ERA
- Alcohol continues
- Consider alcohol as something that gives pleasure, nutrition, medicine, part of ritual (deaths),
can be a form of payment (barter), funerary purposes
BABYLON
CHINA
GREECE
HEBREWS
- Countries like Palestine, Nazareth . people there are Hebrew and the religion Is Judaism
- Vonsider alcohol as major source of nourishment, medicine, and one very important
commodity. Pinambabayad sa barter
PERSIANS
- King of Persia is the one who imposes moderate drinking (King Cyrus)
- Can prolonged life but liver is affected
ROMANS/ROME
MIDDLE AGES
- Introduction to protestants
- Martin Luther nag introduce ng Protestantism(there are a lot of ideas to different religions are
made)
- Protestants consider alcohol as gift from God. Something gives pleasure, enjoyment, and health
- But too much is a sin!
17TH CENTURY
CHAMPAGNE
- (king of all beverages), made of 3 blended grapes (green, black, white, etc.
- - chardonnay (green), pinonoir, meunier(
DON PERIGNON
- vintage champagne
WHISKY
- Scotch (scotch on the rocks), borbon, single mouth wishky, iris whisky, blended w.
RUMA
GIN
18TH CENTURY