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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