The first uses of the cacao bean are seen the height of Mayan civilization (250-900 A.D.)
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It was combined with water,chili ,papers,and cornmeal and drank rather than eaten.
Spaniards were introduced to chocolate in the 1520 when Hernan Cortes conquered Maxico.
The people of Europe became obsessed with chocolate,adding such things as cinnamon and sugar to drink.
→Before chocolate was considered a sweet treat,chocolate was a spicy drink,drunk by such early civilizaation as the Mayans and Aztecs.
→Chocolate was used as a from of money in the Aztec civilization.
→With the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs,chocolate was able to ship back to Europe.
→Valued by the Aztecs,it became a spoil of war.
→In Europe,on the wealthy and church officials could afford to drink coffee.
In Europe,on the wealthy and church officials could afford to drink coffee.