How has the role of alcohol changed throughout Western history, and why?

Question

How has the role of alcohol changed throughout Western history, and why?

Answer 1

"Stone Age Beer" was discovered by the first European & Mid-Eastern farmers who stored grain for more than one season, within the last 10,000 years or so...

They discovered that grains ferment, with alcohol being the bi-product. The frst to try it, realized that they weren't going to die, and that they felt pleasantly different, after the experience...

It has since been embraced by our culture, and perhaps led humanity to envision things, that Homo Sapiens had not thought of, durng the past 200,000 years of our existence...

Answer 2

It hasn't.

It just serves to disguise our conception of reality.

Answer 3

it started out as an alternative to water due to illness caused by dirty water and has moved more the the role of a crutch and excuse

Answer 4

No alcohol role has not changed, it is still an alkaline poison that in small doses releases inhibitions making us more social and more outgoing. there were no civilisations built without alcohol, take Africa, west east and south, no grains, north, Egypt were building in stone some 8 thousand years ago. because they had the grains