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Map #1: “Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt” Label- Mesopotamia/ the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, Tigris River, Euphrates River, Nile River, Zagros Mts., Anatolia, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Arabian Desert, Sahara Desert Map #2: “Wine in Greece and Rome” Label- Greece, Crete, Athens, Sparta, Italy, Rome, Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Sicily, Corsica, France/ Gaul, Spain, Tiber River, Egypt, Alexandria, Anatolia/Turkey, Germany Map #3: “Spirits in the Colonial Period” Label- Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, France, Netherlands, Germany, Atlantic Ocean, West Africa, Canary Islands, West Indies/Caribbean Islands, Brazil, Barbados, 13 colonies, Jamestown, Boston, Pennsylvania Map #4: “Coffee in the Age of Reason” Label- Ethiopia, Yemen, Arabian Desert, Mecca, Sahara Desert, Cairo, Great Britain, London, France, Paris, Netherlands, Suriname, Haiti, Cuba, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Brazil Map #5: “Tea and the British Empire” Label- China, Huang-He River, Yangtze River, Mongolia, Gobi Desert, Cairo, Tibet, Himalayan Mts., India, Japan, Macao, South China Sea, Strait of Malacca, Dutch East Indies/ Indonesia, Netherlands, Great Britain, London, 13 colonies, Boston Map #6: “Coca-Cola and Rise of America” Label- United States, Atlanta, Washington D.C., New York, Japan, Europe, Germany, North Africa, the Soviet Union, the “Iron Curtain”- look this up!, Berlin, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE 5. TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS: Students will be required to read the first 6 chapters in the Traditions and Encounters on-line text. Students will be provided key terms/people as well as a guided reading chart to aid them in organizing this information. You can access these resources by going onto the Jackson Liberty/Memorial website under school resources. 6. MAP LABELING ASSIGNMENT: Use the map attached to identify specifically listed continents, bodies of water and important rivers.
Guided Reading Questions A History of the World in Six Glasses By Tom Standage Introduction 1. What is the author`s main thesis (argument) in setting up his book? Why/how are these fluids “vital’? 2. Why did water get replaced by other beverages in human settlements? “Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt” (Chapters 1 and 2) 1. What remarkable shift began happening about 12,000 years ago? Where did it happen? 2. Describe the “ratchet effect” which caused farming to spread beyond the Fertile Crescent. 3. How might beer have influenced the transition from hunting and gathering (Paleolithic) to agriculturalbased (Neolithic) societies? 4. What does the story of beer tell you about social and gender roles in ancient SW Asia and Europe? 5. How important do you think beer was in the growth and diffusion of the earliest civilizations? Would the earliest civilizations of SW Asia and Egypt have been as prosperous without the discovery of beer? 6. What sources does the author use to gather his information on the use of beer and early civilizations? 7. What is the relationship between early civilizations and writing? Civilizations and health? “Wine in Greece and Rome” (Chapters 3 and 4) 1. Based on the story at the beginning of this chapter, DESCRIBE how rulers showed power and authority in early civilizations and empires. Then, ANALYZE why these methods were effective at that time. 2. What does the story of wine tell you about social and gender roles in the Mediterranean world? How did this change over time? 3. What effect does wine have on the development of Christianity and of Islam (separately)? 4. How and why did wine evolve into a status symbol in Greece? 5. What does the movement of wine show us about Rome and trading networks during this period of history? 6. How was the complex social hierarchy of Rome revealed by wine? 7. Describe and analyze the relationships between wine and empire, and wine and medicine and religion in Rome. “Spirits in the Colonial Period” (Chapters 5 and 6) 1. In the 18 th century, how did spirits change the balance of power amongst the western European nations (particularly Britain and France)? 2. Describe how spirits were first invented by Muslim scholars and then spread as a medicine to Europe. 3. Describe and analyze the links between slavery, sugar, and alcohol. Then, explain how it was used by European explorers and naval forces. 4. Why were spirits an important staple in Colonial America? 5. How did rum play a role in the American Revolution? 6. What is the connection between spirits and colonization? “Coffee in the Age of Reason” (Chapters 7 and 8) 1. Was coffee the first true “global” beverage? Why or why not? 2. How (and why) did coffee play a pivotal role in the Enlightenment and French Revolution? 3. What different regions of the world were connected through the coffee trade? What role did each place have in trade? 4. What important functions did coffee houses serve in the flow of information in the 1600s and 1700s? 5. How did coffee and coffeehouses impact the following: a. Scientific thought b. Business c. Political thought
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