Soldiers in the prisons did not get enough rations of a food. Each day or week they only got a handful or spoonful. So this means that the government didn’t take good care of their
A History of the World in 6 Glasses, by Tom Standage, discusses the influence of various drinks on certain events and throughout the course of history. The drinks we read about in this book are beer, wine, spirits, tea and (from the epilogue) water. The overall purpose of this book is to explain and prove that each of these drinks had a profound effect on the world. Tom Standage is a digital editor and an author who wrote a plethora of books on an array of events and times throughout history. That being said, Standage’s work can be trusted and recommended as he is a qualified writer.
Beer: Beer was not particularly an invention, Standage says, it was more so a discovery, when it came about in the Mesopotamia society around 3400 BCE. Water was the only beverage the Mesopotamians ever knew, until they came upon a new drink derived from barley, wheat, and cereal grains. Beer had become the staple beverage of the earliest civilizations. Both rich and poor people consumed beer.
This book reveals to us how beer and wine were used for cultural, social, political, and even medical purposes. Finally, Standage shows us how civilizations grew by the spreading of beer and wine, and how the spreading of these drinks spread culture around the world. To Standage beer and wine is a technology that played huge role in the developing and advancing civilization. In the introduction, Standage states that throughout history various drinks have/had such high significance
43,500 jews died from malnutrition. “For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.” ― Elie Wiesel. The jews were deprived of so many things as they were kept in the
In A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage, the similarities and differences in the economic and political role of drinks such as spirits and coffee between the Colonial Period and the Age of Reason are presented. Economic similarities between these periods include that spirits and coffee were agriculturally produced and traded between areas for items and that both of these drinks slowly promoted the growth of capitalism. An economic difference is a trade of spirits being used as slave currency and encouraging slavery while coffee promoted equality between different economic classes. Political similarities include spirits and coffee shifting political power and the drinks’ role in challenging the government. A political difference
A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage is not the typical history read that one might expect. To some who find reading history books quite tedious and overwhelming, this book is for you. Standage divides his book into 6 main sections via beverages: Beer, Wine, Spirits, Coffee, Tea and Coca-Cola. These drinks, which all started as a form of medicine, not only have great affects on today’s social culture but have also affected the historical spread of technology, religion, exploration, trade, slavery, and noteworthy worldwide events that changed society. As Standage describes it, Beer was a representation of both liquid wealth and health during the early civilizations in Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The armies often ran out of food to feed the soldiers. When food deliveries were delayed, soldiers were forced to forage the countryside so they wouldn’t starve, but many of soldiers on both sides were starving and malnourished. Many of the men cooking meals were inexperienced
If a person does not meet his or her daily requirements for food, it is nearly impossible to thrive in any other aspect of life. As the needs of an individual become increasingly scarce in an environment, civilized
Too many aeroplanes. But we are emaciated and starved,” (Discovering, 317). As a result of the military using much of their resources for the war, the common people felt the effects with this. They were often starved because it got to the point where they had to ration out the food to the people. According to the German Wartime Civilian Rations, 1958, the average food consumption for the German population went from 3500 calories per person per day to 1200 around the winter of 1917-1918 (Discovering,
What is a hero? According to Google, a hero is “a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.” (Google.com). Many will agree Miep Gies fits this description; an article written about her gives her the title “Hero of the Holocaust” (Legacy.com). She’s a hero because she protected some of the people targeted by the Nazis, preserved the diary of a girl known all over the world, and continued to spread hope and encouragement for the rest of her life.
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The people knew that they had to keep the troops fed to have a chance at winning. They often ate food that was hard to ship across sees, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, so they could send the heartier stuff overseas (Schumm, 2014). People realized food was a very important weapon in war because soldiers, civilians, and children require it to keep the cycle of supplying the Allie’s going. Food shortages often led to protests and riots, so the government was trying very hard to get everybody to do their part and save food. Food was so important, that it could possibly decide who would win the war.
Beer was an amazing discovery that changed the course of history forever. It was used for religious ceremonies, as a source of currency, and it had many other uses through the course of ancient and modern history. When exactly beer was first discovered is not
There were very small amounts of food and most people had to search the streets for any little food they
