Question

Read the text “The History of Chocolate”


1.What is the most important ingredient in chocolate?
2.Where did cacao beans originally grow?
3.Who were the first people to eat cacao beans?
4.Who introduced the cacao beans to the Aztecs?
5.What did the Aztecs use the cacao beans for?
6.What did the Maya give the Aztecs as a tribute?​

Answer 1

1.What is the most important ingredient in chocolate?

- The most important ingredient in chocolate is  a cacao bean.

2.Where did cacao beans originally grow?

- They originally grew in the Yucanat Pinunsula.

3.Who were the first people to eat cacao beans?

- The Maya were the first people to eat cacao beans. 

4.Who introduced the cacao beans to the Aztecs?

- Mayan merchants travelled north and introduced cacao beans to the Aztec people. 

5.What did the Aztecs use the cacao beans for?

- They used it as a drink and even as money.

6.What did the Maya give the Aztecs as a tribute?​

- When the Aztecs conquered the Maya they asked for cacao beans as a tribute.