it is calld coco.
Usually water, but they also made fruit juice and a bitter chocolate drink from cocoa beans.
Other than cocoa beans for a drink, the Aztecs have also used cocoa beans as a currency to purchase goods such as a rabbit or an enslaved human. Hope this helps!
Maya
cocoa beans. They were used to make 'chocolatl' - a spicy drink
Cocoa beans grow in the tropics on a small tree. The beans grow in pods abount the size of a deflated football. First the beans are removed from the pods and firmented for afew weeks. Then they are roasted not unlike coffee beans. After that they are ground into cocoa. To turn these beans into chocolate, a good portion of them are roasted and sent separated by a machine called a winnower. From there they are ground into a paste and mixed with cocoa butter and sugar until refined into various forms of chocolate.
They used the cocoa beans for a sort of chocolate drink used only for the Elite class. For proof look in a 7th grade history book.
They're both beans which are ground down and used as sources of food (Drink)
They were used to make a cocoa drink and were also used as their currencey (money).Also their pills
Cocoa, which is a drink made from milk, sugar, and cocoa beans.
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The Ancient Aztecs used the cocoa plant to please their god Quetzalcoatl who, descended from heaven on a beam of a morning star carrying a cocoa tree stolen from paradise.In both the Mayan and Aztec cultures cocoa was the basis for a thick, cold, unsweetened drink called xocoatl… believed to be a health elixir.Since sugar was unknown to the Aztecs, different spices were used to add flavor, even hot chili peppers and corn meal were used!Aztecs believed that wisdom and power came from eating the fruit of the cocoa tree, and also that it had nourishing, fortifying, and even aphrodisiac qualities.The cocoa beans were used for currency… records show that 400 cocoa beans equaled one Zontli, while 8000 beans equaled one Xiquipilli. When the Aztecs conquered tribes, they demanded their payment in cocoa! Records dating from 1200.BC show details of cocoa deliveries, imposed on all conquered tribes.
Who Invented Chocolate? The Olmec Indians are believed to be the first to grow cocoa beans as a domestic crop somewhere between 1500 BC and 400 BC. Later on the consumption of cocoa beans was restricted to the elite of Mayan society in the liquid form. As Mayan's migrate into the northern regions of South America around 600 AD, they established cocoa plantations in the Yucatan. By the 14th Century this liquid libation become popular among the upper classes of Aztec society. They were the first to tax the beans than made this drink called "xocalatl" meaning warm or bitter liquid. Early Spanish explores to the area discovered the bean drink and in the 16th Century brought it to Europe. They began to add cane sugar and flavorings such as vanilla to their sweet cocoa beverages and by 1570 AD the cocoa was used as a popular medicine and aphrodisiac. A century later the English introduced a solid chocolate in the form of chocolate rolls and cakes, served in chocolate emporiums