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History of Alcohol

Alcohol has played an important role in many ancient cultures and civilizations. It was used not only as a recreational beverage but also as a source of nutrition, medicine, and in religious rituals. Over time, different cultures developed various alcoholic drinks like beer, wine, mead, and spirits. While alcohol provided benefits when consumed in moderation, excessive drinking led to problems and was eventually regulated by laws and religious rules. The history of alcohol shows it has long been an integral part of human societies when balanced with principles of temperance.

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History of Alcohol

Alcohol has played an important role in many ancient cultures and civilizations. It was used not only as a recreational beverage but also as a source of nutrition, medicine, and in religious rituals. Over time, different cultures developed various alcoholic drinks like beer, wine, mead, and spirits. While alcohol provided benefits when consumed in moderation, excessive drinking led to problems and was eventually regulated by laws and religious rules. The history of alcohol shows it has long been an integral part of human societies when balanced with principles of temperance.

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HISTORY OF ALCOHOL

- Alcohol, part of daily lives of ancient people because they believe that alcohol is a source of nutrient.

- Used as medicine, antiseptic(for bacteria), analgesic(pain reliever, biogesic, tempra),


tranquilizer(nakakakalma) if moderately, it promotes relaxation, pharmacological, therapeutic effects
(there benefits and can be useful sa katawan),

- Alcohol has a big role!

ANCIENT PERIOD

- Discovered verifiable brewery


- Found in burial site (kweba ang libingan noon)
- Israel nadiscover yung 13,00 na beer
- Alcohol is part of ritual in honor of deaths
- Material can be wheat or barley based
- Stone Age yung beer mugs
- Agricultural revolution
- Beer becomes staple

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

- Beer becomes major beverage


- They have gods and goddesses so may wine goddess and deities
- Famous code of Hammurabi to address alcohol (penalties, rules, laws to regulate the
consumption of alcohol and to have fair commerce).

CHINA

- Consider beer as spiritual/mental food rather than material food


- Wise people para makapag isip g maigi, they have to drink alcohol
- Part of their lives

GREECE

- Popularity of Mead (fermented water and honey)


- Factory (common place) for fermented beverage. Dun na mina manufacture
- There are variations (flavor). Such as plain, spice, etc.

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

- Practiced moderate drinking


- Values of temperance
- Excessive drinking processes (because of more consumption of alcohol, there are problems like
crimes.
- Cato the Elder- alcohol before has been noted and very destructive in terms of the drinking
behavior of people (radical behavior), di ma control emotion.

EARLY CHRISTIAN PERIOD

- Christianity begins, After Death of Jesus Christ (start of wine making)


- New Testament
- Bible (miracle at the wedding of)
- Consider wine as creation of God
- They rejected alcohol in 4th and 5th century. There are adherence to religious opinion contrary to
church dogma

VITICULTURE- people began cultivating grapes (nagtatanim na) to make wine

- Monks discovered how to ferment to make wines


- Vinyard and wine became staple

MIDDLE AGES

- Start of monasteries and their job is to make wine


- Aside from mead, we now have rustic beer ( pino produce sa malalayong lugar
- Mead- yeast and malt
- Wild Fruits

BLACK DEATH under ng middle ages

EARLY MODERN PERIOD

- 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

- Considered alcohol as natural


- Beer is essential and well being of people

DIFFERENT DRINKS THAT MADE OR DISCOVERED

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

- Sailer jeris spice


- Made from sugar cane

GIN

- Made from jnever berries


- US manufactured 100% of gin

18TH CENTURY

- Excessive use of consumption of beer


- Consumption of Gin has been discouraged. (proceed to module)
- Tea and coffee was discovered (may effect sa katawan since nakakpag energized)
 There are lots of problems because of the use of alcohol.
 As a conclusion, alcohol plays a vital role and it ha sbeen recorded way back history
 Drink alcohol in moderation
 Read labels (for allergic reactions in ingredients used)

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