Though initially associated with social classes because it was exotic and scarce, wine soon embodied Greek culture. Wine also became the Greeks main export and opened vast new seaborne trade, this lead wine into spreading the philosophy, politics, science, and literature of Greece. Wine also spread to the Roman Empire and became associated with Christianity and the Mediterranean. Standage’s recall of wines history relates wine to world history in many ways, them being the fact that wine thrived and lived through long distance trade, the rise and fall of empires, the movement of nomadic peoples, and the spread of
Though initially associated with social classes because it was exotic and scarce, wine soon embodied Greek culture. Wine also became the Greeks main export and opened vast new seaborne trade, this lead wine into spreading the philosophy, politics, science, and literature of Greece. Wine also spread to the Roman Empire and became associated with Christianity and the Mediterranean. Standage’s recall of wines history relates wine to world history in many ways, them being the fact that wine thrived and lived through long distance trade, the rise and fall of empires, the movement of nomadic peoples, and the spread of