What was alcohol's original purpose?

Question

I am doing a informative speech thing on alcohol, and my teacher said it would be better if i explain what alcohol's original purpose was, and i have no idea. XP HELP ME PLZ

Answer 1

Alcohol is a product that has provided a variety of functions for people throughout all history. From the earliest times to the present, alcohol has played an important role in religion and worship. Historically, alcoholic beverages have served as sources of needed nutrients and have been widely used for their medicinal, antiseptic, and analgesic properties. The role of such beverages as thirst quenchers is obvious and they play an important role in enhancing the enjoyment and quality of life. They can be a social lubricant, can facilitate relaxation, can provide pharmacological pleasure, and can increase the pleasure of eating. Thus, while alcohol has always been misused by a minority of drinkers, it has proved to be beneficial to most.

Answer 2

It was used by ancient Civ becouse it has "curative powaz"

Answer 3

alcohols original purpose? to get totally smashed and had a good time! it's first practical use was sterilization

Answer 4

Beer bongs around the 15th century.

Answer 5

Alcohol has no original purpose.  It is natural, not man made.  When bacteria eats sugar, it creates alcohol.

Answer 6

back in the days they couldn't put people to sleep so they made them drunk so they couldn't feel a thing

Answer 7

to help stomach digestion, it was invented by the egyptians

Answer 8

it could be drunken, and was clean before proper water sanitation

Answer 9

To get drunk. That has always been alcohol's purpose.

Answer 10

u need to ask ur instructor to be more specific or either u need to be more specific with your question.....

alcohol was drank thousands of years ago, along the way such as a few hundred years ago and before it was an anasthetic

which may be what he is looking for

Answer 11

Early beers were relatively clean, very nutritious beverages. They were liquid bread that kept a lot longer than actual bread, were cleaner than the water and contained a lot of calories and nutrients. Early alcohols were a way of keeping produce usable much longer.

Answer 12

from its very begining, alcohol was for religious, spiritual, and phyisical stimulation, as time past it basically was used for getting drunk

in the earlier centuries, there was wine which was used for celebratory ceremonies and spirtual ceremonies such as sacrifice and praise to the gods, then there came ale then beer and so on and so forth. In later ages it was a relaxing and well sought beverage, but while there was those who were responsible there were those who were no, submitting to alcolism and complete addiction to the substance.

Answer 13

get drunk

Answer 14

i think it started with wine and stuff made from fruit.

it served the same purpose then as now, to get people drunk!

think of the old English kings (imported wine from france) and the ancient Greeks! alcohol is well documented in they're histories!

it was also used in early surgery as an anti-bacterial and sterilization method!

- im not really sure about the bible but Jesus drank wine didn't he? that takes alcohol back to his day! what's that? at least 0 AD?

Answer 15

Koh’l is a Semitic word used in early Biblical references and is the Arabic word for antimony sulfide, a fine cosmetic powder, used as eye make-up by women of the Middle East. In such countries as India and Yemen, they even went so far as to throw the powder directly into their eyes to increase their brilliance or sparkle. Other women used the “normal” methods of application by making a paste of the powder and rubbing it on the eyelids.

The original Arabic sense of pulverized antimony powder was the original purpose of “al kuhl”. It was refined by heating to a vapor, then condensed to a solid to achieve an extremely fine powder (so fine that a person couldn’t feel the separate grains when they were rubbed between the fingers) which was applied as an even stain for eye makeup.

By the time “alcohol” entered English in the 16th century, its meaning had broadened to include “any fine powder, especially one derived by vaporizing a solid and then allowing the vapor to condense.” In 1753, liquid spirits which were derived by vaporization and condensation were also known as alcohols, the best known was alcohol (or spirit) of wine, and by extension, to the spirit of any fermented liquor.

When Arabian alchemists invented the distillation of alcohol with a similar process c. 1,000 A.D., they used for the name of their product the cosmetic process, and alcohol has been doing weird things to eyes ever since.

Answer 16

The Scottish invented it and sold it to the Irish because the Irish were getting too smart.

Answer 17

It probably was first discovered unintentionally by early civilizations fermenting grain.  Once they knew the pleasure of drinking it there was no turning back.

Answer 18

* Making kings and queens of early days merry and happy!

* Putting Xmas on the map.

* Making sea travelling for months on end bearable

* Helping ugly people copulate

* Knocking peoples out for operations

Answer 19

clensing agent to clean stuff like cuts wounds kill germs.

Answer 20

it had no purpose it was made by the Egyptians on accident when they fermented cereal do your research kid

Answer 21

As I recall, alcohol was used as an anti-freeze during the world wars, also as a cleaning solution.

Of course there are different grades of alcohol and each of them has a purpose.

If you mean alcohol consumption, the answer is simple. To get high.

Answer 22

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_...

There were many purposes, and it was invented by many cultures, even as far back as the Stone Age, they had beer.  The wikipedia article above is very interesting to read.

Answer 23

to cleans us from the inside out,

Answer 24

It was supposed to be a drink to sooth people or to have at a formal party.

Answer 25

to ease pain then ppl realized what it could do.