Alcohol basis -Drug – in any substance however consumed, causes physiological change in the mind or body -Most used drug – caffeine, tobacco, aspirin (coffee #1 in the US) -Alcohol might not be the most used drug on the planet but it is the oldest!!! -Very important to human history -Biogeography – subfield of geography, factors influencing the distribution of plants and animals, approached from ecological, historical and cultural perspective -Human influence – crop domestication, environmental change,… - everything live (bio) -Alcohol – from Arabic word (alc uol), ethanol (ethyl alcohol), grey alcohol, any beverage that has ethyl alcohol in it, almost from pre-civilization (medicinal, recreation, hygiene, .._ -Symbolic religious use – much higher ranking to the human need -Combination of alcohol and biogeographyalco-biogeography – study of the factors influencing the distribution of those plants that are the base ingredients for alcohol, approached from ecological, historical, and cultural perspective -Impacts – defining cultural landscapesimbues specific cultural characteristics (some locations have certain plantscertain alcohol) -Historical summary: -Can occur naturally – people used it – desire for alcohol might be the reason why people settle down and grew plants for alcohol -We have been tweeking it, figuring out how to make it betterstill expanding different flavors from different places -
