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The Aztecs: A Very Brief History Of Chocolate

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You enjoy the chocolate bar so much; however, do you ever think about the history, and the social conditions involved in producing it? To begin with, the Aztecs first made chocolate from the cocoa bean. As an illustration, they mixed the crushed cocoa bean with spices and chili, that made a drink called xocoatl. Xocoatl, which mean bitter water is usually reserved for the nobility. The Aztecs usually served the foamy brew to an explorer named Cortez and his conquistadors, who brought the bitter bean back to Europe in 1519. Soon afterward, Europeans learned to grow it in both equatorial African colonies and South American colonies. Eventually, they learned to mix chocolate with sugar rather than spices yet it wasn’t an instant success. In the

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