The author,Tom Standage, argues that deliberately-made beverages represent a variety of roles and commemorations to their respective societies and world history. He believes that these beverages symbolize the time periods, cultures, and achievements of their respective eras.
Standage asserts that the six fluids of beer, wine, spirits, tea, coffee, and Cocoa Cola are vital to understanding the histories of, " ... agriculture, philosophy, religion, medicine, technology, and commerce ..."
All of the countries just wanted to be succeeding in being a country and they were so poor after ww1 they trusted anyone to get back to a good economic state
African tribes were too strong and the terrain was foreign and difficult for the Europeans to pass.
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy