Civilized Beer

By chalis
  • 4300 BCE

    Cities

    Villages began to form cities that sat at the center of it's own system of fields/irrigation system
  • 3400 BCE

    Origin

    Writing first began to emerge in Sumer, where the recorded history of beer and everything else began.
  • 2700 BCE

    Epic of Gilgamesh

    Gilgamesh was the Sumerian King who ruled at this time.
  • 2650 BCE

    Egyptians

    Beer is mentioned in documents from the third dynasty and several varities of it are mentioned in "Pyramid Texts"
  • 2350 BCE

    Egyptians

    Sargon, ruler of the neighboring region of Akkad, ruled at this time. He referred to beer as apart of the bride price.
  • 2100 BCE

    Beer as "Medicine"

    A cuneiform tablet from the Sumerian city of Nippur contains a pharmacopoeia, which is a list of medical recipes, based on beer.
  • 2035 BCE

    Beer as "currency"

    A document from this time is a list of provisions paid out to official messengers in the city of Umma.
  • 2000 BCE

    Cities

    Almost the entire population in southern Mesopotamia was living in a few dozen large city-states
  • 1550 BCE

    Beer as "Medicine"

    "The Ebers Papyrus", an Egyptian medical text contains hundreds of recipes for herbal remedies, many of which involved beer.
  • 1335 BCE

    Afterlife

    Special sieves for beer making were found in the tomb of King Tut