CHOCLATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

This is by Daphne, Erin, and Kaili :D

Olmecs
~first to domesticate the plant and use the beans
~thought that there were secrets of health in the beans(When patients had to gain weight they could eat choclate, stimulate the the nervous system of weak patients, improve digestion, anemia, poor appetite, fatigue, and kidney stones. It was also used to make medicine less bitter.)
~beans were an important part of this ancient civilizations diet and culture from as early as 600 B.C.

Mayans
~chocolate for every meal
~traded their cacao beans
~chocolate was spicy.
~they used cacao beans as the currency(4 cacao beansfor a pumpkin)
(10 cacao beans for a rabbit)
(100 cacao beans for a slave)
~Mayans and Aztects' made their chocolate spicy
~Burial tombs have been found with pots of offerings with cacao beans
~ the sacred book of the Mayans the Popul Vuh has a cacao tree instead of an apple tree for their story of creation

Fun Facts
~cacao beans were not used to make chocoalte bars, but a bitter spicy taste that are a spicy frothy drink. they usually mixed it with chiles.
~Today, the Mexicans that lived in Mesoamerica treasure their choclate so much they still make the frothy drink today!

~<3 Daphne, Erin, Kaili :D