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The Columbain Exchange: Cocao

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Origination

Fist Originated in South American Cultures 5300 years ago:

  • Aztecs
  • Mayans
  • Upper Amazon Region: Modern Day Peru, Ecudor, and Columbia

The Cacao seed comes from the Theoborom tree and is used to make Cholcate and cocao butter

Trading

  • Mesoamericans initaly traded with other nations along the Andes Mountians.
  • First Traded with the Old World when the Spanish conquistadors came over in 1519.
  • 100 years after cacao was brough back to Spain it began to be traded with the rest of Europe.
  • Spain traded with France, Portugal, Hollond, Denmark, and West African coutries.

Profibility

Profibility

  • Used as a form of currency in the New World
  • Traded in exchange for man-made products, animals, and plants via the Columbian Exchange.
  • Very high demand in Old World because they loved chocolate
  • Very labor demanding cash crop, drrove the food economy

Profits

-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

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Map

Dates of trade:

  • Mexico: 600 BCE
  • Spain: 1519
  • French: 1615
  • Floria: 1641
  • England: 1655
  • West African coast: 1600s
  • Portugal: 1600s
  • East Asia: 1600s
  • Holland and Denmark 1600s

Enviormental

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.

Labor practices

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.

This is an image demonstrating slave labor in mesoamerica

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Culture

All throughout Europe, once Hernan Cortes introduced cocoa, it became an extreme cash crop that was highly demanded.

French

Example 1

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.

Portugal

Example 2

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.

Sources

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

Aztecs

Empire

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.

Chocolate originally was a drink that the Aztecs loved. In this picture, they are drinking chocolate.

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Labor Systems

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.

Labor Systems

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