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Beer is another example of how a product, or artifact, can change human history. Public houses became important meeting places for revolutionaries, scientists and thinkers as well as social activists. Beer has a history going back (reliably) to 3500 BCE Iran and ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Monks popularized the beverage in Europe during the rise of Christianity, the Industrial age brought better brewing methods and more variety and today beer is the third most consumed beverage on the planet.

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