One of the most popular foods of all time is chocolate. People nowadays eat chocolate in
many different forms. We eat chocolate candy, and we drink hot and cold chocolate drinks.
The chocolate we eat today is made from a lot of different ingredients, but the most impotant
ingredient is cacao bean.
The story of cacao bean and its long journey to stores and supermarkets all over the world
started hundreds of years ago in Mexico. Cacao trees need hot and humid weather, and they
originally grew in the Yucatan Pinunsula.
The Maya were the fist people to eat cacao beans. They picked cacao beans from wild trees
and cleared land to cultivate their own trees. They made a drink from cacao beans and
exchanged the beans for other goods. They also used cacao beans for religious ceremonies.
Mayan merchants traveled north and introduced cacao beans to the Aztec people. Soon the
cacao bean was part of the Aztecs' lives. They used it as a drink, as part of religious ceremonies
and even as money. With 10 beans, you could buy a rabbit. With 100 beans, you could buy
slave. One of the Aztec god.
The Aztecs could not grow cacao trees because of the dry climate. When the Aztecs conquer
the Maya, they asked for cacao beans as a tribute.
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