A History of the World in Six Glasses

-universal symbol of hospitality and friendship -offering to the gods

-grain to make beer -greater amount of foods because of farming -civilizations grew because of excess food

-vitamins -protein -safer than water

where the world's first cities arose

-world's first greatest literary work -Endiku is saved from the wilderness by a woman who gives him beer and bread, and then he becomes a civilized human

buried with 700 jars of wine

foreigners whose language sounded like random babbling to the Greeks

Greek writer and one of the world's greatest historians

private men's drinking party with certain rules

man who thinks democracy is suspicious and lends too much power to people; compares wine to democracy

displaced Greek dominant power in Mediterranean

Romans used Greek language, literature, gods and myths, alphabet, and architecture

Marcus Aurelius's personal physician who was interested in discovering the world's best wine to cure wounds and regulate the body

ended by the death of Marcus Aurelius

represented Christ's first miracle and Jesus' blood

Battle of Tours in 732 led to this

process in which liquid is vaporized and condensed in order to purify and separate its constituent parts

-African slavers demanded alcohol in return -one of the "legs" of the triangle of trade

England believed the 13 Colonies had the same climate as the Mediterranean, so it would then grow the same crops. The results were the complete opposite

-alleviated hardship -form of central heating -decreased dependence on England -used as currency for slaves -favored amongst soldiers

-rebellion by farmers in Pennsylvania against the whiskey excise -significance: showed federal law needed to be of upmost importance and rebellions would not be tolerated

Washington = whiskey maker Jefferson = said whiskey was poisonous; wine advocate

-kept workers awake, alert, and clear of thought

Pope Clement VIII loved the taste and aroma and granted approval of coffee to Christians

-mid-fifteenth century -under rule of Oliver Cornwall during English Civil War -alternatives to taverns

-meeting place for businessmen -where ideas, gossip, info, and rumors where shared -mailing address

Adam Smith discusses how the government must let trade be to its own devices in order for it to prosper

centers of revolution

remain places where gossip, rumors, ideas, and information is spread; meeting place for many business people

new system of manufacturing in England

expanded European trade and profit fueled and funded workers in factories

China believed they were superior to all and did not need anything from anyone, especially Europe

-contaminated, mixed, not pure -prolonged life of tea because it was mixed with sawdust, ash and willow trees, flowers, etc

opened a tea shop and sold especially to woman

British inventor who invented first modern factory

efficient infrastructure, Protestant work ethics, religious tolerance, , supply of coal, scientific tradition, fruits of empire, and *tea drinking*

-created opium in India -sold opium for silver -had opium shipped to China -turned Chinese into druggies -silver BEIC earned gave them enough money for tea

-Chinese burnt British merchants' opium -short because of European advanced weaponry -British kept Hong Kong, opened five ports, demanded Chinese repayment in silver

US defeated Soviet Union because of their advanced economy and technology

world's most recognized brand

-safety of caffeine for children; misrepresentation of purity of cola -turned out safe and clearly represented

Coca-Cola advertised Santa drinking Coke to attract children

-kept morale and reminded them of home -exempt from sugar-rationing because it was said to be necessary to maintain morale

General Eisenhower - proponent of coke; had 3 million bottle shipped to his base twice a month General Zhukov - loved coke and had it made without color so he could drink it freely in Russia

Coca-Cola spreading throughout the world Marshall Plan - program of financial help from the US to reconstruct Europe's economy

helped establish Pepsi in Russia

Coca-Cola announced they were going to open a bottling franchise in Tel Aviv Arab League boycotted Coke

Coke correlates closely with greater wealth, quality of life, and political freedom