![]() ![]() ![]() Wealthy Mayans drank foaming chocolate drinks, while commoners consumed chocolate in a cold porridge-like dish.Īs people of the Aztec empire spread across Mesoamerica in the 1400s, they too began to prize cacao. The Mayans, who considered cacao a gift from the gods, used chocolate for sacred ceremonies and funeral offerings. Chocolate played an important political, spiritual and economic role in ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, which ground roasted cacao beans into a paste that they mixed with water, vanilla, chili peppers and other spices to brew a frothy chocolate drink.Īncient Mesoamericans believed chocolate was an energy booster and aphrodisiac with mystical and medicinal qualities. Archaeologists have discovered the earliest traces of cacao in pottery used by the ancient Mayo-Chinchipe culture 5,300 years ago in the upper Amazon region of Ecuador. ![]()
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