Alexis Bonwell

September 25, 2015

Ms. Neale
6th Period

AP World History: Summer Assignment 2015-2016

A History of the World in 6 Glasses
TERMS:
1. Fertile Crescent (Pg.12) - A region of the Near East where people took up farming and
established large-scale settlements. It is named after an exciting accident of geography.
The Fertile Crescent was significant because it provided a rich supply of cereal grains in
which those grains were later on used make beer.
2. Chicha (Pg.19) Chicha is beer that the Incas offered. This is significant because the
Incas offered this beer to the gods of the Earth, they would either spit on the ground or
pour it on the ground.
3. Storehouses (Pg.23)-Storehouses where places that kept things safe. This is significant
because grains and other food surplus were kept in storehouses.
4. Uruk (Pg.25)-Uruk is the city that was ruled by Gilgamesh and also by 3000 BCE the
citys population had around fifty thousand. This is significant because
5. Sumer (Pg.26)-The Sumer is a region in southern Mesopotamia where writing first
began to emerge around 3400 BCE. This is significant because this is where the
recorded history of beer began.
6. Epic of Gilgamesh (Pg.26)-The Epic of Gilgamesh is the worlds first great literary work.
This is significant because it tells a story about civilization.
7. Ziggurat (Pg.31)-Ziggurats were simple storehouses of the Neolithic period that became
elaborate temples. Ziggurats are significant because they helped store things.
8. Mesopotamian city-states (Pg.11, 24)-The worlds first cities arose in Mesopotamia. This
is significant because of where the city-states were it helped with the progress with beer.
9. Cuneiform (Pg. 33-34)-Cuneiform were used as documents, it recorded tax receipts and
ration payments. This is significant because it was the first general purpose form of
writing. It also have a tablet recording the allocation of beer.
10. Ashurnasirpal II (Pg.43)-Ashurnasirpal II was the king of Assyria. He gave one of the
biggest feast in history.
11. Dionysius (Pg.53)-A more kindly but still rather patronizing Greek tradition relates that
Dionysius created beer for the benefit of people in countries where the vine could not be
cultivated. In Greece, however, Dionysius had made wine available to everyone, not just
the elite.
12. Platos Republic (Pg.65)-Plato argued in his book The Republic that placing too much
power in the hands of the ordinary people led to inevitably to anarchy. In this book he
depicted Socrates denouncing proponents of democracy as evil wine pours who
encouraged the thirsty people to overindulge in the strong wine of freedom.
13. Battle of Tours (Pg.88)- This battle was one of the turning points in world history. The
advance of Islam into Europe was halted in 732 CE at the Battle of Tours, in central
France, where the Arab troops were defeated by Charles Martel.
14. Charles Martel (Pg. 88)- Charles Martel was the most charismatic of the princes of the
Frankish kingdom that roughly corresponds with modern France.

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6th Period

BEER:
1. The discovery of beer helped people realize that grains were very important for living.
This lead to must hunters becoming farmers and showed people that farming is
important so more people started to settle down for good therefor creating the first
civilizations. (Pg.13-15)
2. The Neolithic Revolution was the change in the people lived and the start of agriculture.
Beer helped the Neolithic Revolution because hunters and gathers became farmers to
make sure they had grains for beer. Its believed that farming was adopted in order to
maintain the supply of beer. (Pg.21)
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4. According to Standage, beer made it possible for people to settle down and start a
civilization. This was because grains was needed for beer so people started to farm and
found farming very useful and decided to settle down, build cities and did everything else
that was needed for a civilization, thats how beer civilized man.
5. In Egypt the people was against the drunkenness of beer but the Mesopotamians had a
relaxing and calm attitude towards it.
6. The pyramids were built by the state employees and they were paid in grains. The
pyramids instilled a sense of national unity, demonstrated the wealth and power of the
state, and provided a justification for taxation.

WINE:
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Since rulers were taking over lots of land their empires, power, wealth, and city-states
started to grow. Since they were getting richer and richer they began to buy wine and it
started to become a social beverage.
Since the city-states and empires began to grow the availability of wine was great
because there was less borders to cross, fewer taxes, and it was cheaper to transport
wine over long distances.
Wine was used as wealth for the Greeks. The Greeks were the first to produce wine on a
large profitmaking scale so wine was one of Greeces major exports and was traded a
lot.
It was said that Plato was suspicious of democracy he believed that it would lead to an
anarchy. Platos symposium is different from others because he laid down rules for the
proper running of a symposium.
It turns out that wine embodied Greek Culture and as the wine was being exported from
Greek, their values and customs went along with it. For an example, the ships that
carried Greek wine carried Greeks civilization and distributed it around the
Mediterranean and other places.
At the Roman convivium different wine would be served to people depending on their
social status but in the Greek symposium the people drank as equals from a shared
krater. In the end, both drank their wine in a civilized manner.
The Islamic viewed wine as abominations devised by Satan but wine became a symbol
for Christianity, it represented Christs blood.

SPIRITS:
1. The origin of distilled spirits is Cordoba. (Pg.93-94)

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2. The connections between spirits, sugar, and slaves became better with a new drink
made from the waste products of the sugar-production process itself called rum.
(Pg.105)
3. Spirits became an important staple in colonial America because they helped build
America.(Pg.112)
4. Rum was the preferred drink of American soldiers during the six years of the American
Revolution war. General Henry Knox even wrote to George Washington emphasizing the
importance of rum. (Pg. 120)
5. Whiskey replaced rum because whiskey could be made anywhere and didnt depend on
ingredients that had to be imported also the ingredients couldnt be taxed or blocked.
(Pg.121)
6. Alexander Hamilton putting taxes on whiskey caused the Whiskey Rebellion. These
taxes reflected a deeper divide over the balance of power between the states and the
federal government. (Pg.122-23)

COFFEE:
1. The Arabs dominated the coffee industry because that is where coffee was originated.
(Pg.136)
2. Coffee became preferred over alcoholic beverages because coffee didnt intoxicate
people the way alcoholic. Coffee also helped people fight off sleep. (Pg.137-139)
3. It was important to Europes development that many Europeans chose coffee over
alcohol as their favored beverage of consumption because it was cheaper. (Pg.147)
4. Coffee played a pivotal role in the scientific revolution because Hookes coffeehouse
bragging was the unknowing trigger for publication of the Scientific Revolution book. On
a January of 1684 a coffeehouse discussion turned in the theory of gravity. (Pg.160)
5. Coffee played a pivotal role in the financial revolution because coffeehouses became
functioned as stock markets and the stocks were traded there. Through time this
became the London Stock Exchange. (Pg.164-165)
6. Coffee played a pivotal role in the Enlightenment and the French Revolution because at
coffee places enlightenment thought in France had flowered under thinkers into the
social and political spheres. Also there was information circulated in French
coffeehouses and other things that lead to gossip. (Pg.166-170)

TEA:
1. Tea transformed the Chinese society because it helped with medical issues, it was a
foodstuff and a drink. Tea also was the national drink during the Tang dynasty which was
the period of the golden age in Chinese history. (Pg.178-179)
2. China exported silk, tea, paper, and ceramics on the Silk Road trade route. This trade
happened so China can receive clothing, hairstyles, new foodstuffs and more. (Pg. 179)
3. Tea became popular in England because of two thing, the influence by Catherine of
Braganza and because it was affordable. (Pg.192-195)
4. Tea was an important part of the Industrial Revolution because the Mill owners let their
workers get Tea brakes because the tea kept the workers alert on long shifts. The tea
also improved their concentration on operating fast-moving machines. (Pg.199-200)
5. The connection between tea and politics is the British East India Company which is the
company that supplied Britains tea. The duty of the tea imported accounted for as much
as 10 percent of government revenue. (Pg.203)

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6. The East India Company played a role in world history during 1773. The American
colonist boycotted British goods, refused to pay taxes, and they also resented the way
the government was handling the East India Company a monopoly on the retailing of
tea. It was said that the East India Company would leave no stone unturned and that
they will become Masters of the American colonists. (Pg.204-205)
7. There was a vital grasp on the tea trade through its involvement in the trading of opium,
thats how tea is connected to the opium trade. Also tea was connected to the Opium
war 1839-1842 because tea was a part of the opium trade and the Chinese government
tried to stop the trade. After a failed attempt to stop the trade, a commissioners men set
fire to the stocks of opium and this started a short one-sided war. (Pg.210-211)