What did people in ancient Greece eat and why?
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You can find everthing you need here:\nhttp://schools.sd68.bc.ca/fair/STAFF/AB/JM.htm
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Religion doesn't want you to know what it was really like back in biblical days. Food always was a problem. Meat was a luxury. After the growing season (there was no refrigeration) if you didn't have enough food to last, or if there was a bad crop or flood or insect damage, the people had to forage for food in order to survive. Which means , pick up anything that was edible, any leaf, plant  or root that could be chewed & swallowed was food. When that was depleated people actually picked up a handful of dirt and swallowed it in order to to take away hunger. If you ate the wrong plant or root you could halucinate. The root of the Payote Cactus, Mugwort,  etc are plants that contain halucinagins. The people didn't know. Eat it and you could see a staff turn into a snake like in the Bible. When Jesus went into the desert for 40 days did he bring a hundred pounds of food? When prophets claim that  they heard God it's never asked. "What did they eat before?" Religion always gives you a cleansed version of what went on in Biblical times (for obvious reasons).  If you would study the History of Civilization on this planet at a university (not from a religion) you will gain a better understanding of what really went on. And you would question a lot of things they tell you to believe. Religion is always much more popular with uneducated people (no offense intended).
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"Sybaris, a city of Magna Graecia, on the Gulf of Taranto, between the rivers Crathis (Crati) and Sybaris (Coscile), which now meet 3 miles from the sea, but in ancient times had independent mouths, was the oldest Greek colony in this region."\n\nAlso:\n\n" The statements transmitted to us of the power and opulence of the city, as well as of the luxurious habits of its inhabitants, have indeed a very fabulous aspect, and are without doubt grossly exaggerated, but there is no reason to reject the main fact that Sybaris had in the sixth century BCE attained a degree of wealth and power unprecedented among Greek cities, and which excited the admiration of the rest of the Hellenic world. "
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You can go to www.google.com and type in greek and you should find some information there. Good Luck.
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Which side are you talking about?\n\nThe attackers could have eaten fish from the sea, olives from the trees, grapes, they could have hunted for wild boar.\n\nThe Trojans trapped inside Troy would have resorted to rations of food.\n\nConsidering Troy is in what is now known as Turkey - why don't you research that?\n\nSurely in all the legends and poems there is some reference to what was eaten?
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History, culture, and good food.
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The Greeks themselves didn't exist as a nation, at least not as we know it, but rather as a group of mostly unfriendly city-states in that region, centered around different places at different times.  The earliest "greek" civilization centered first in the Cyclades and then Crete.  After that it moved to the mainland and Mycenaea (the time of the Greek legends) and then on to various others, culminating in the rise of Macedonia and its young king Alexander the Great.\n\nSee link below:
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People in ancient prehistoric Egypt followed the pattern of hunter-gatherer to cattle-raiser/farmer, followed similarly by peoples all over the world then as well as now.  When we today think of ancient Egypt and its glories, we usually think of the treasures and monuments of kings, the wealth and grandeur of noble tombs, and the texts left by scribes. But it was the farmer and laborer, the "peasants" of the time, who formed the backbone of the Egyptian way of life. \nEgypt has always been an agricultural country. Husbandry has been the foundation of its economy, the welfare and prosperity being at all times depending on the produce of the soil. The peasants were the backbone of the nation, yet they left us hardly any record of their own lives. This is not surprising since they were non-literate. They left no written accounts of the essential aspects of their lives, aspirations, hopes and what they thought of their lot compared to the wealthier classes around them.\n\nThe evidence that we do have that allows a picture of the life of the farmer comes to us from the paintings on the tomb walls of wealthier landowners and bureaucrats, depicting life in their households and estates, texts and records, especially those from the Ptolemaic period written in Demotic script, and archaeological evidence such as seed baskets, hoes, plows, sickles and winnowing scoops, related household utensils such as ropes, baskets, and sieves, as well as small-scale wooden models of houses and gardens and even people working.\n\nIt was believed that the god Osiris was the first farmer, the king who taught the people farming techniques and the domestication of animals. His wife the goddess Isis taught the people how to make beer and bread. With Osiris for their role-model and deity, the people offered back the products of the land to the gods.\n\nThe first farmers combined the exploitation of pockets of wild grains, with the hunting and domestication of native species of sheep, goats and cattle. The wadis, fertile areas, throughout Egypt, provided grazing as well as cover for game such as antelope, gazelle, ostrich and hare. Fish filled the Nile River and ducks, geese and other birds thronged the marshes and reeds.\n\nNot only was grain vital to feed the people, but, since the Egyptians at that time had no form of currency, grain was part of a barter economy. That is, prices of basic commodities were expressed in terms of measures of grain.\n\nBread and beer were the chief components of the Egyptians’ daily diet, eventually even being depicted as the first offering in the funerary offering formula, or hetep di nisu. Though there are several words in the ancient Egyptian language for grain, one term in particular graphically describes the significance of grain in the life of the people. This word was ankhet, describing corn as "that which gives life."\n\nOther names of important grains which were cultivated are found on a stele listing offerings. There are two varieties of barley, called it shema and it mehi, emmer, called bedet, wheat, called sut, and another grain called in Egyptian besha.\n\nThe earliest evidence for the cultivation of grain crops in the Nile Valley comes from the Predynastic period, in the region known as the Faiyum. This oasis north-west of modern Cairo is fed by a branch of the Nile river. Its lake was known as Mer Wer or Great Lake, hence its Hellenized name of Moeris. During the 12th Dynasty, kings built pyramids and summer palaces in this region. Later on during the Ptolemaic period, the greatest increases in both available agricultural land and population occurred in the region, and in the Roman period, the Faiyum was one of the principal grain producing areas of its Empire.\n\nEmmer wheat, barley and flax, from whence linen was made and linseed oil was derived, were the first grains cultivated, and continued to be the most important crops through dynastic history. Both emmer and barley were used for brea
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That's a pretty broad question, since there were so many different ancient civilizations. And so many different ideas about what constitutes medicine. \n\nSince the ancients hadn't invented the scientific method, a lot of what they did to treat illness wasn't very effective. Even the Greeks, who produced Hippocrates (the author of the oath that physicians still take), didn't have a clue as to what really caused illness - remember, no one even SAW a microbe until a few hundred years ago; and no one knew they caused disease until the 19th century.\n\nBut of course some kind of medical theory & practice goes back before recorded history. People assisted in delivering babies, splinted broken bones, made and used poultices out of all kinds of things, boiled and drank herbs (effectively or not). Presumably, they learned to control bleeding by staunching wounds, & maybe even applying tourniquets.\n\nOn the other hand, one can find out a lot about typical or at least possible ancient medical practices just by reading medical literature written before the middle of the 19th century. The way Western doctors treated disease in the 1700s wasn't very different, or more effective, than the kind of things they'd always been doing.\n\nIn terms of medicine, ancient civilization wasn't very long ago.
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Nile comes from the ancient word in greece
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to eat lots and lots of food lol
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Take a sheet and wear a toga when you hand in the paper\n\nThe Romans were avid partiers and cuisine started in ancient Rome
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Food which would not perish easily on long journies,such as smoked fish and pork,salt,coffee,flour,and corn meal.They would suppliment this by hunting wild game,and searching for wild berries along the way.Or fishing in lakes or streams.Many pioneers brought cooking traditions from their native european countries.\n \nJohnnycake a kind of cornbread, was a favorite because it didn't get spoiled on a long trip. They also ate berries,and grapes. Grinding corn was often a job of pioneer boys. They dried the meat and hung it so that it would last longer. They also ate ducks, chickens, rabbits, turkeys, fish, pigs, buffalo, dear, moose, elk, raccoon, beaver, bear, coyote, goat, eggs, bread, fruit, pie, peas, nuts, beans and carrots. They ate apples, pickles, oranges, watermelon, corn, spices, sugar, plums, strawberries, bananas, pineapples, pears, peaches, cheese, and, flour. They also ate wild oinions, butter, and blackberries. Corn was very easy to grow so it was a common food for the pioneers.
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I read an article about that five years ago. The theory was that homosexuals protected and helped find food for the children within their family units because they were not encumbered with children of their own. In other words, they would gather food and protect their nieces and nephews. Those families that had homosexuals in their group were more likely to survive. Also, if you remember your history, homosexuality was encouraged in at least the Greek army as male lovers were fiercer fighters to protect each other.  This may have been the case in earlier times.
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Check these sites out:  http://www.godecookery.com/trscript/trscript.html\n\nhttp://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq3.html#shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq3.html#romeo\n\nThe food that Romeo and Juliet ate were Italian fare since the play took place in Verona, Italy.  The Italian Rennaissance had such fare as Lasagne (without sauce), wine, risotto, fresh fish and lots of fresh fruits.
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Ancient Greece.  At least, those are the earliest ones we have records of.
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Vegetarian food only. Pythagoras belonged to a cult which was very strict and allowed only vegetarian food.