https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9826240 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9826240 Oh, yes the glorious battle of englightment- awaking from the beverages

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9826240 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9826240 Oh, yes the glorious battle of englightment- awaking from the beverages of medieval times. If only history was that clear cut. It turns out coffee send some shizos into revolutionary overdrive, supresses anxiety and thus allows a mumbling bundle, to develop into a paranoia-ignoring, revolutionary zealot, capable to incite others- even though there exist no plan, not strategy and sometimes even quite progressive kings or queens, battling with trader aristocracys who want to keep the peasants uneducated. TL,DR; New substances have funny side-effects. PS: Also alcohol is my favourite suspect when it comes to the question- why did humanity settle down? Harvest the wild wheat and move on like a true nomad- or stay and grow it.. Nothing that ingenious and labourfull then a unwillingly sobber alcoholic. But it does not make for nice museum texts: "Here we see the first settlements- men settled down, because they where thirsty and needed the wheat and barley, and a nomadic existance was cumbersome with all those earthen kegs to move around."