HIST 3109 Lecture : Lecture 3
24 Feb 2014
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Lecture 2: pick book soon (for the book review), a guide to low-risk drinking. Spread across the week: ancient alcohol we"ll cover a lot of ground in terms of time and space. 3000bc to 500ad, from mesopotamia/middle east to europe: we see the beginnings of the history of alcohol (that we know of, what we have records for). Although there are others: mead (made from diluted honey), cider (made from apples), etc: africa the sap of palm trees used to make palm wine. Or you can, as raisins, but you can"t make as much wine from raisins because they"re dry: beer didn"t last that long depending o the season, probably had a shelf life of a week or two. But you can grow grain all across canada: scarcity of wine more expensive elites tended to drink wine, commoners drank beer. But keep in mind that elites also drank beer.
