1. The discovery of beer is linked to the emergence of civilization because beer comes from grains such as wheat and barley. These grains served as a reliable food source for the hunter-gathers and when the founding of beer occurred people settled along the places the grains grew reluctant to leave them unguarded.
2. Beer production is an example of plant domestication because the grains where adapting to being used as different substances and fermented to produce beer.
3. The author gathered information through reading different books about the use of beer in the prehistoric world of the Egyptians and Sumerians.
4. In ancient cultures beer would be used as a ‘social’ drink and sometimes be used to show hospitality by drinking from the same cup through straws. Also since beer was believed to be a gift from the Gods it was used as a religious offering in many religious ceremonies by the Sumerians, Egyptians, and Incas. The Chinese used their beer during funerals and other ceremonies. Sumerians also used beer as forms of payment for their people. The Egyptians used beer to help medicinally.
5. During the author’s example of Enkidu, he stated that beer civilized man by being consumed and that it made them different from being savages; therefore echoing its association to a settled lifestyle.
6. The relationship between writing, commerce and beer go hand in hand. Writing was invented to record the interchange of beer and other materials. Beer affected writing and commerce