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A brief history of chocolate
According to botanists, the first cocoa trees probably grew wild in the Amazon or Orinoco valley more than four thousand years ago. Archaeologists think that the Mayans were possibly the first humans to cultivate cocoa and that they took it with them when they migrated to the Yucatan around the seventh century A.D. There is also evidence that the Aztecs may have carried cocoa seeds with them wherever they wandered, around Central America. The origin of the word chocolate comes from the Aztec/Mayan word chocolatl. To the Native Americans chocolatl was a cold bitter drink made by mixing ground cocoa beans with liquid. The word chocolatl may be a combination of two Mayan words, choco (warm) and latl (beverage). Which seems strange since chocolatl was usually served cold. Still the exact roots of chocolatl are not known.
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