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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "aqua ardens" translate to in English?

2. What ingredient used by Mesopotamian brewers refers to beer-bread?

3. When did Englishman Richart Ligon catch his first glimpse of the Caribbean island of Barbados?

4. What were the first animals that were domesticated throughout the Fertile Crescent between 7000 BCE and 5000 BCE?

5. Who united the Greeks and defeated Persia in the fourth century BCE?

Short Essay Questions

1. What artifacts demonstrate the earliest of beer drinking and customs?

2. How is rum made? Where did it originate?

3. Why was King Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria feast significant?

4. What cultural role did beer serve in England in the sixteenth century?

5. When and where did wine originate?

6. What role has beer served in poetry and literature?

7. What role did distilled spirits play in the emergence of the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

8. How did wine factor into Ancient Egyptian culture?

9. Describe the death of King Charles II of Navarre. Who or what caused his death?

10. When was the practice of large-scale wine production introduced? What advancements were made?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the correlations between the slave trade and distilled spirits. Why were spirits used as currency in the slave trade? How did the production of distilled spirits factor into the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

Essay Topic 2

When did distilled spirits first come into customary use as recreational beverages? What kinds of distilled spirits were the first to emerge? How were these drinks consumed? What was their economic value?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the emergence and spread in popularity of rum, whiskey, and bourbon in the American colonies. How were these spirits obtained? How were they viewed by the early colonists? How did they contribute to the American Revolution?

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