AP WORLD

By carysbart03
  • 146 BCE

    Romans and Greeks (WINE)

    The Romans manage to take over the Greeks. Even though the Romans won over the Greeks, the Greeks culture still survives and is a starting point for most Roman culture. If you take a look at the gods for the Romans, they are just Greek gods and goddesses but with Roman names. Wine was used as a connector to both Greek and Roman values with wine being the symbol of civilization for them both. The Romans even learned how to create wine using Greek techniques and skills.
  • 1191

    Japan Military Leader fell sick (TEA)

    Buddhist monk Eisai brings the new drink or tea to Japan. Shortly afterwards, a Shogun of Japan fell ill and Eisai was able to help heal him with his new found knowledge of tea. Soon after becoming better, the Shogun became the new fave of tea and with its newfound popularity became a vital part of Japanese culture. Tea became a new part in Chinese culture and became a vital part in special ceremonies in Japan.
  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus (SPIRITS)

    When Columbus sails across the Atlantic and discovered the "New World," he believes that the islands would be just right for growing sugar. The islands were perfect for growing sugar and he need workers that were not native to the island. Thus began the deeply depressing movement that is the African Slave Trade. In order to buy slaves from Africa, spirits were used as a currency. This lead to the "New World" increasing their demand of slaves and being able to pay it off with spirits.
  • 1511

    Ban of Coffee(COFFEE)

    The consumption of coffee is banned in Mecca due to Kha'ir Beg. Beg stated that coffee had intoxicating effects on the mind and that it is as equal as an alcoholic drink. However, by the time the ban was actually set in stone, coffee drinkers and coffeehouses had already drawn up a business and were not ready to leave quite yet. Eventually, after months of the ban, higher lawmakers decided to overturn the outlaw coffee and made it legal to drink again.

  • Failed attempt of tobacco (SPIRITS)

    People of the Barbados had a fail attempt to grow tobacco and instead turned to growing sugarcane. When they started growing sugarcane they left over sugarcane otherwise known as molasses used it to make spirits, in particular rum which is a mighty powerful drinks. These spirits could be made in large quantities and slaves were even given rations of rum.

  • London's first coffeehouse (COFFEE)

    The first coffeehouse was opened in London by a Pasqua Rosee, a servant for a wealthy English merchant. Rosee was very successful and ended up with local taverns disliking him for killing their business. Eventually, Rossee was forced to give up his business and then left the country. His idea left London with a new idea to have new and different types of drink houses in London.

  • Rum of Navy ships (SPIRITS)

    Rum became the new beer rations on the Royal Navy ships because it could last longer and has a higher alcohol content than beer. One day, Edward Vernon decided to add some sugar and lime juice to rum and created a new drink called the grog. Thus began the beginning of cocktails and with cocktails, sailors could add fruits to get in their nutrients that they were missing from being out on sea.

  • Issac Newton (COFFEE)

    Issac Newton, well known mathematician and a physicist published his book: Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. He did a lot of thinking for this book in coffeehouses and the book discussed modern topics such as gravity and his most famous theory of objects in motion. Newton was not the only thinker who's studies was affected by a coffeehouse. Other thinkers such as Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren and Edmond Hailey all started their ideas in a coffeehouse.

  • Gabriel Mathieu De Clieu (COFFEE)

    Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu, a French naval officer wanted to introduce coffee to the French West Indies. He visited Pairs and obtained a cutting of the royal coffee plant. Since he did not have direct access to the plant, he was able to have a young lady to get the cutting of the plant for him. When he got home from his trip, he had a guard protect his plant until it was all grown up. Eventually, his coffee reached a point where it was able to export it to France, exceeding demand of anything.

  • First Tea Garden (TEA)

    The first ever tea garden Vauxhall Gardens was open in London, England. The reason why this became a revolutionary issue was that women, the first time in history were allowed to attend this. Previously, only men were allowed to coffeehouses and other types of drink taverns. But what made tea gardens so different was how the attitude was proper and elegant.

  • Joseph Priestley (COCA-COLA)

    The invention of Coco- Cola was created by scientist Joseph Priestley. During this time period, English scientist were particular interested in the whole process of fermentation an how carbonated beverages were created. Priestley thought that by mixing gasses into a drink might be a beneficial step in modern medicine. In later years, Priestley had thought of and developed a more modern method of carbonatng water and was able to publish his work in his book: Impregnating Water and Fixed Air.

  • Boston Tea Party(TEA)

    The Boston Tea party occurred the night of December 16. A result of the Tea Tax and the decision made by parliament lead the Boston people angry and decide to boycott all British goods, Later that evening, a group of radical men decided to dump hundreds of crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. They dressed up as Native Americans and kept on chanting "no taxation without representation."

  • Tea Tax (TEA)

    In the Americas, colonist started to smuggle tea from Great Britain in the early 1770s. Since colonist opposed paying the ridiculous high taxes, they decided to take matters into their own hands and steal the tea. In order to keep the colonist happy and from revolting, parliament decided with the force of The East India Company to lower the tax. Instead of this making the colonist relieved of the taxes, they were livid and angry of how The East India Company was in control of parliament.

  • Molasses Act (SPIRITS)

    The Revolutionary War broke out in a large part due to the taxation that the colonist received. One of the taxes were the Molasses Act of 1773. Molasses is a key ingredient in the making of rum and without it, rum could not be made. Since French molasses is cheaper than anyone's, the British put a tax on all non- British molasses. The taxes were not at all cheap and this would really hurt the rum making business, So in order to keep their lives afloat, they continued to take French sources.

  • Camille Desmoulins (COFFEE)

    A French lawyer, Camille Desmoulins gave an inspiring speech outside of Cafe de Foy in Paris. Desmoulins speech started a fire in the people of France and lead to the idea of starting the French Revolution. Coffeehouses of Pairs became a breeding ground for ideas and speeches for the French Revolution.

  • Whiskey Excise(SPIRITS)

    The whiskey excise, thought of by late secretary of the U.S. Alexander Hamilton. the excise made distiller to either pay an annual levy or an excuse duty for seven cents per the gallon. Farmers of the U.S. were terribly angry and started to rebel from the government and created their own little militia. At the end when George Washington found out, he sent troops to go and squash the little rebellion. Thus lead to Hamilton's idea to be repealed.

  • Coca Cola Company (COCA-COLA)

    Pharmacist and inventor John Pemberton created a new drink that sparked the nation. Since the prohibition prevented the sale of alcohol, he had to find other ways to create a profit. Coca Cola was then sold, becoming an instant hit among everybody and Pembreton's sails were skyrocketing. Everyone was hooked onto the drink, but the actual ingredients were parts of a coca plant mixed in with kola nuts, thus leaving them with a caffeine boost.

  • Great Depression (COCA -COLA)

    During the Great Depression, Coca -Cola was a symbol for happiness and joy in the world. The drink was promoted in movie theaters, over the radio and to those who were struggling from the GD, it provided a sense of carefree for them. Even in the Great Depression the company still managed to have a decent profit.

  • Coca-Cola in WWII (COCA-COLA)

    When the Japanese launched their attack on Pearl Harbor, it was the starting point for troops to enter WWII. Coca-Cola made the decision to follow the troops into battle by providing them five cent Coca-Cola for each soldier, Even though this was a great and wonderful idea to help the troops out, many of the soldier never had one. This lead to Coca-Cola selling the bottles for nearly 40 dollars a bottle. But by the end of WWII, Coca-Cola became a proud and known name everywhere.

  • Pepsi Cola (COCA-COLA)

    Pepsi-Cola, a new company has emerged to compete against Coca-Cola. The cost of a Pepsi was the same price as Coca-Cola, but the huge difference was the size of the bottle. The bottle was double the size of the original Coca-Cola bottle. Since business was not so well for Coca-Cola, they sued Pepsi saying they took their trademark. Eventually, to avoid paying huge sums of money Pepsi changed their logo and Coca-Cola laid off of the trademark. This lead to both of the companies being successful.