Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Origination
Fist Originated in South American Cultures 5300 years ago:
The Cacao seed comes from the Theoborom tree and is used to make Cholcate and cocao butter
-The Europeans were the ones that benefitted from cocoa because once they greatly imported them from Mesoamerica, they began to grow it themselves in their own countries.
- The middle and lower class Europeans were able to enjoy chocolate that cocoa produced becuase there was such an abundance which made it affordable
-
Dates of trade:
Growing cocoa means that there is an increase in amount of trees which furthermore helps the storage of carbon. This helps with climte change. The best climate for cocoa to thrive and grow is tropical forests so West Africa, South America, and the Ivory Coast are the perfect places for cocoa to grow.
When the Spanish took over the Aztecs, they formed encomiendas and made the aztecs become slave laborers for the Spanish. They would grow, harvest, and process the cocoa and would get paid with gold and silver but not nearly the amount that was deserved.
All throughout Europe, once Hernan Cortes introduced cocoa, it became an extreme cash crop that was highly demanded.
Once cocoa was introduced to the french, they began creating silver chocolatiére (which was a chocolate-pot used to make and serve the chocolate beverage). This invention was originally created by the Mexicans but once it started to be made in France, it became a product that noble men could use to drink chocolate.
Due to Europe adopting chocolate, they first had many people become laborers that improved social progress until the African Slave Trade began which led to many European nations like Portugal begin to have african slave laborers to grow, harvest, and produce chocolate. This officially began racially based slavery.
history.com
worldcacaofoundation.com
scharffenberger.com
sucaen.com
worldhistory.org
choclateclass.worldpress.org
worldwildlife.org
scholar.harvard.edu
vendatu.com
idhi.library.cofc.edu
wordpress.com
The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican empire that thrived. They were extremely innovative and between the 15 and 16 centuries, Hernan Cortes was a Spanish explorer that explored the Aztec Empire. The Aztec cheif traded cocoa in exchange for foreign goods that were brought to the empire and once cocoa was brought back to Europe, it skyrocketed and the demand for it was extreme.
Mesoamericans used cocoa as a way to trade and feed the people but once the Spanish arrived they changed the way cocoa was operated by free labor (slavery) also known as the encomienda system. Countries like Holland, Portugal, England, and Denmark profited based on African slave labor.