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The story of Chocolate(6page)
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The story of Chocolate(9page)
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The story of Chocolate(10page)
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The story of Chocolate(10page)
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The story of Chocolate(11page)
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The story of Chocolate(11~12page)
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The story of Chocolate(12page)
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The story of Chocolate(13page)
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The story of Chocolate(13~14page)
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The story of Chocolate(15page)
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The story of Chocolate(15page)
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The story of Chocolate(16page)
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The story of Chocolate(17~18page)
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The story of Chocolate(18page)
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- 12.07.02
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- The story of Chocolate(6page)
- Soon everyone was sucking pulp and spitting beans.
But then, some villagers noticed a delicious smell, drifting up from a pile of rotting beans.
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- 12.07.03
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- The story of Chocolate(7page)
- Over the next few months, the farmers discovered a way to capture this smell by turning the beans into a drink.
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- 12.07.04
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- The story of Chocolate(7~8page)
- They let the beans rot for a few days under banana leaves... then put them out to dry in the hot sun.
Next, they roasted the beans over a fire... ground them into a paste... and stirred in water and spices.
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- 12.07.05
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- The story of Chocolate(8page)
- They called their new drink cbocol baa.
It tasted very bitter, but they liked it.
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- 12.07.06
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- The story of Chocolate(9page)
- To avoid hiking into the jungle for pods, the farmers planted cocoa trees in their own fields.
"Remem ber, it needs plenty of shade."
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- 12.07.09
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- The story of Chocolate(9page)
- The farmers were members of a huge group of people called Mayans.
Before long, chocol baa - or chocolate - was an important part of Mayan life.
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- 12.07.10
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- The story of Chocolate(10page)
- Mayan kings and priests began to drink it every day.
They liked the froth best.
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- 12.07.11
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- The story of Chocolate(10page)
- "Pour it from high up to make mpre froth!"
At Mayan weddings, the bride and groom showed their love for each other by exchanging five cocoa beans.
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- 12.07.12
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- The story of Chocolate(11page)
- In fact, people were so enchanted by the cocoa tree, they painted it on everything - their pots, their mugs and even their walls.
But preparing cocoa beans was hard work and took weeks.
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- 12.07.13
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- The story of Chocolate(11~12page)
- Most people were only allowed to drink chocolate as a special treat.
Cocoa beans became so valuable they were used as money.
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- 12.07.16
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- The story of Chocolate(12page)
- You could buy a rabbit for ten beans and a slave for one hundred.
"It's only a small one. i'll give you eight beans."
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- 12.07.17
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- The story of Chocolate(13page)
- Chapter 2
Learning the secret
Hundreds of merchants arrived in a Mayan village.
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- 12.07.18
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- The story of Chocolate(13~14page)
- They had journeyed for days to find exotic goods for days to find exotic goods for their emperor.
The merchants belonged to a fierce group of people called Aztecs.
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- 12.07.19
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- The story of Chocolate(14page)
- To avoid trouble, the Mayans offered them some of their precious beans.
"What are these for?"
"They make a drink fit for the gods."
"Prove it!"
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- 12.07.20
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- The story of Chocolate(14page)
- When the Aztecs had learned the chocolate secret, they served a cupful to their emperor.
He was delighted.
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- 12.07.23
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- The story of Chocolate(15page)
- "Perfect!" he cried.
"A cool, refreshing drink that doesn't make you drunk." And he ordered all his warriors to drink chocolate before they went into battle.
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- 12.07.24
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- The story of Chocolate(15page)
- Where the Aztecs lived it was too cold to grow cocoa.
So, they had to buy their beans from the Mayans and carry them all the way home.
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- 12.07.25
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- The story of Chocolate(16page)
- The Aztec emperor, Montezuma, was crazy about chocolate.
He kept the royal warehouses piled high with cocoa beans.
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- 12.07.26
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- The story of Chocolate(16page)
- Sometimes he ordered 50 cups of chocolate a day, thinking they would make him richer and wiser.
"Oh, go on then, just one more.
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- 12.07.27
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- The story of Chocolate(16~17page)
- But poorer people could only dream about chocolate.
Over time, a legnd grew up about where chocolate first came from.
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- 12.07.30
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- The story of Chocolate(17~18page)
- "Once upon a time, the world had no chocolate," said the storytellers.
"Then Quetzalcoatl, the god of farming, appeared from paradise with a cocoa tree." Quetzalcoatl was the Aztecs' hero.
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- 12.07.31
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- The story of Chocolate(18page)
- They built him grand temples and left him chocolate drinks as gifts.
But other countries had their eyes on the Aztecs' riches.