Fertile Crescent History

Fertile Crescent: A region of the east where humans first took up agriculture and established large-scale settlements. The reason they’re important is because Grains provided a reliable source of food that was suitable for consumption when raw by soaking in water. Also the discovery of beer was made using these grains as well which is why this is so important in the history of beer. The Fertile Crescent was discovered around 10,000 BCE.

Chica: Incas offered beer, Chicha, to the rising sun in a golden cup, and poured it on the ground or spat out their mouthful as an offering to the gods of the earth. They would see beer in a more thankful way and something that came from the earth and used it to praise to the earth which is why it is important

Ritual and religious activity in which the gods were called upon to ensure a good harvest were made in these storehouses and these two activities became intertwined and food and supplies was given to the gods and the storehouses became temples.

Uruk: In 3000 BCE the city of Uruk was the largest city of its kind and had a population of around fifty thousand. It was surrounded by a circle of fields (meaning it was full of arable land) .By 2000 BCE almost the entire population in the southern Mesopotamia was living in a few dozen large city states including Uruk. This is important to the history of beer, because since it was so large and beer was a big trading item it kept Uruk thriving.

Sumer: A region in the Southern parts of Mesopotamia where writing began around 3,400 BCE. This term is significant in the history of beer because it was written in a Sumer location by a Sumerian king who wrote an epic that was a myth he created about his own life and how he was given beer and made a civilized man which eventually was adapted by many cultures that beer made you more

Cordoba: Cordoba was only one of the great centers of learning within the Arab world, a vast domination that stretched at its height from the Pyrenees in France to the Pamir Mountains in central Asia, and as far south as the Indus Valley in India. At a time when the wisdom of the Greeks had been lost in most of Europe, Arab scholars in Cordoba, Damascus and Baghdad were sources to make further advances in such fields as astronomy, math, medicine and philosophy

Aqua vitae: Aqua vitae seemed supernatural and in a since it was for distilled wine has a far higher alcohol content than any drink that can be produced by natural fermentation. Eve the hardiest yeasts cannot tolerate an alcohol content greater than 15 percent. Men lived well over seventy an unusually advanced age for the time which may have been taken as evidence for aqua vitae’s life-prolonging power. Aqua vitae’s proponents believed it could preserve youth, Could be a drink or applied externally to affect the part of the body.

Dashee/bizy: It soon became customary for Europeans to present large quantities of alcohol as a gift before beginning negotiations with African tribes. The Europeans and Africans conversed in a pidgin language so they can get strong liquor .Following the invention of a powerful new drink made from the waste products of the sugar-production process itself. That drink was