The earliest record of cokelat was over fifteen hundred years yang lalu in the Central American rain forests, where the tropical mix of high rain fall combined with high tahun round temperatures and humidity provide the ideal climate for cultivation of the plant from which cokelat is derived, the Cacao Tree.
The Cacao pohon was worshipped oleh the Mayan civilisation of Central America and Southern Mexico, who believed it to be of divine origin, Cacao is actually a Mayan word meaning "God Food" hence the tree's modern generic Latin name 'Theobrama Cacao' meaning ‘Food of the Gods’. Cacao was corrupted into the lebih familiar 'Cocoa' oleh the early European explorers. The Maya brewed a spicy, pahit sweet drink oleh roasting and pounding the seeds of the Cacao pohon (cocoa beans) with maize and Capsicum (Chilli) peppers and letting the mixture ferment. This drink was reserved for use in ceremonies as well as for drinking oleh the wealthy and religious elite, they also ate a Cacao porridge.
The Aztecs of central Mexico also prized the beans, but because the Aztec's lived further north in lebih arid regions at higher altitudes, where the climate was not suitable for cultivation of the tree, they had to acquire the beans through trade and/or the spoils of war. The Aztecs prized the beans so highly they used them as currency - 100 beans bought a Turkey atau a slave - and tribute atau Taxes were paid in biji cokelat, kakao beans to Aztec emperors. The Aztecs, like the Mayans, also enjoyed Cacao as a beverage fermented from the raw beans, which again featured prominently in ritual and as a luxury available only to the very wealthy. The Aztecs called this drink Xocolatl, the Spanish conquistadors found this almost impossible to pronounce and so corrupted it to the easier 'Chocolat', the English further changed this to Chocolate.
The Aztec's regarded cokelat as an aphrodisiac and their Emperor, Montezuma reputedly drank it fifty times a hari from a golden goblet and is quoted as saying of Xocolatl: "The divine drink, which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole hari without food"
In fact, the Aztec's prized Xocolatl well above emas and Silver so much so, that when Montezuma was defeated oleh Cortez in 1519 and the victorious 'conquistadors' searched his palace for the Aztec treasury expecting to find emas & Silver, all they found were huge quantities of biji cokelat, kakao beans. The Aztec Treasury consisted, not of precious metals, but biji cokelat, kakao Beans.
The Cacao pohon was worshipped oleh the Mayan civilisation of Central America and Southern Mexico, who believed it to be of divine origin, Cacao is actually a Mayan word meaning "God Food" hence the tree's modern generic Latin name 'Theobrama Cacao' meaning ‘Food of the Gods’. Cacao was corrupted into the lebih familiar 'Cocoa' oleh the early European explorers. The Maya brewed a spicy, pahit sweet drink oleh roasting and pounding the seeds of the Cacao pohon (cocoa beans) with maize and Capsicum (Chilli) peppers and letting the mixture ferment. This drink was reserved for use in ceremonies as well as for drinking oleh the wealthy and religious elite, they also ate a Cacao porridge.
The Aztecs of central Mexico also prized the beans, but because the Aztec's lived further north in lebih arid regions at higher altitudes, where the climate was not suitable for cultivation of the tree, they had to acquire the beans through trade and/or the spoils of war. The Aztecs prized the beans so highly they used them as currency - 100 beans bought a Turkey atau a slave - and tribute atau Taxes were paid in biji cokelat, kakao beans to Aztec emperors. The Aztecs, like the Mayans, also enjoyed Cacao as a beverage fermented from the raw beans, which again featured prominently in ritual and as a luxury available only to the very wealthy. The Aztecs called this drink Xocolatl, the Spanish conquistadors found this almost impossible to pronounce and so corrupted it to the easier 'Chocolat', the English further changed this to Chocolate.
The Aztec's regarded cokelat as an aphrodisiac and their Emperor, Montezuma reputedly drank it fifty times a hari from a golden goblet and is quoted as saying of Xocolatl: "The divine drink, which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole hari without food"
In fact, the Aztec's prized Xocolatl well above emas and Silver so much so, that when Montezuma was defeated oleh Cortez in 1519 and the victorious 'conquistadors' searched his palace for the Aztec treasury expecting to find emas & Silver, all they found were huge quantities of biji cokelat, kakao beans. The Aztec Treasury consisted, not of precious metals, but biji cokelat, kakao Beans.