Download - Mayans and Chocolate
Ancient MayaLocation: Yucatán PeninsulaHistory• Pre-Classic period
(c. 2000 BC to 250 AD)• Classic period
(c. 250 AD to 900 AD)• The Maya Collapse
(c. 8th-9th Century)• Post-Classic Period
(c. 10th-16th Century)• Colonial Period
(c. 17th Century)
Known for architecture, written language, art, math & astronomy system
Mayan Architecture
Writing System
(Glyphs)
Mayan Art
Math & Astronomy
Mayan Religion
Trade & Currency
Currency small rabbit = 30 cacao beans turkey egg = 3 cacao beans large tomato = 1 cacao bean
Cacao reserved for royalty
A Mayan chief forbids a person to touch a jar of chocolate
Ek ChuahMayan God of Cocoa Bean
Celebrated in April
Cocoa Output
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Chocolate
Often said to be from Nahuatl xocolātl which would be derived from xococ "bitter" and ātl "water
However, the form xocolātl is not directly attested, and chocolatl does not appear in Nahuatl until the mid-18th century. Some researchers have recently proposed that the chocol- element was originally chicol-, and referred to special wooden stick used to prepare chocolate.
Kakaw ('cacao') written in the Maya script. The word was also written in several other ways in old Maya texts.