Chapter 1
1. The consequences of the agricultural revolution were that people stopped moving around and settled in villages creating cities, it also cause writing, and new technologies.
2. Wheat and barley are cereal grains, from them beer, soup, porridge, gruel, and broth are produced.
3. The archeological evidence was from 10,000 b.c.e., flint- bladed sickles for harvesting, woven baskets for carrying, stone hearths for drying them, underground pits for storing, and grind stones for processing them is all evidence that supports cultivation, harvesting, and processing of cereal grains.
4. Early farmers discovered that cereal grains could be stored for years if kept dry and safe and when cereal grains got soaked in water it produces diastase enzymes.
5. Farming led to a food surplus and because of this people did not need to go hunting everyday for their food they now had time to specialize in different activities and crafts.
6. Three reasons to switch to farming are because they had a steady supply of food, the more sedentary lifestyle increased fertility rates, and once beer was discovered it became so socially important and they wanted a steady supply of it.
7. Bread was solid beer, and beer was solid bread.
8. Ancient civilizations believed that beer was a gift from the gods, and to hank them they used beer for religious offerings and had ceremonies to thank them.
9. The grains were kept in storehouses run by the government and the only given out when there were food shortages and there were rituals and religious activities done to ensure that the next years harvest would be good.
10. The discovery of beer led people to settle down in one place and to start farming because of this people started to have a surplus of food so they had leisure time, during this time people started constructions of buildings and the maintenance of irrigation systems, beer even led to the first writing to record the sales of beer.