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   Chocolate: A Mesoamerican Luxury Before chocolate was a sweet candy, it was a spicy drink. Some of the earliest known chocolate drinkers were the ancient Maya and Aztecs of Mesoamerica.They ground cacao seeds into a paste that, when mixed with water, made a frothy, rather bitter beverage. Drinking chocolate was an important part of life for the Classic Period Maya and the Aztecs. Take a more detailed look below at the different ways the Maya and Aztec people obtained, made, and used cacao. Continue to 250-900 C.E. [A.D.] | An Ancient Maya Crop |
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