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By Drew Eggleston
Cacao comes from an a tree, called the cacao tree, and it is located in the Amazon Basin. Seeds from this tree can make cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate.
The first people that domesticated Cacao were the Olmecs and the Mayans. It was domesticated 3,600 years ago.
Olmecs
Mayan
The first use if the Cacao bean was currency. It was believed by the Mayan's that the beans were given to them by the gods.
The first use of consumption for Cacao was done by the Olmecs. They purified the beans and made it into a liquid, added with water and other spices.
Named for Christopher Columbus, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Africa to Americas
Slaves
Americas to Europe
CACAO
Corn
Peanuts
Potatoes
Cotton
Europe to Americas
Bananas
Chickens
Cows
Horses
Pigs
Europe to Africa
Furniture
Cotton
Brass
Pans
Guns
Columbus discovered the bean when he captured a canoe in Guanaja which is an island in Honduras. They first believed these were just simply almonds but later realized they were actually the cacao bean
There was also a high demand for cacao because of the benefits chocolate had back then. Some of the benefits that it had back then was that it could alleviate fevers, anemia, poor appetite, mental fatigue, and kidney stones
Eating large amounts of Cacao can cause nervousness, increased urination, sleepiness, and faster heartbeat
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/columbian-exchange-overview/
https://prezi.com/mb4gzoyqqhgh/cacao-and-the-columbian-exchange/