Because they were the local currency. Also, in some parts of Central America, cacao beans were used as currency as recently as the last century.
the Mayans used chocolate as money and food to eat.
To pay off taxes
yes because chocolate was the only thing they ate for the drink they had hot chocolate
They were the first people to make hot chocolate
money and food to eat.they
Chocolate was said to have been invented by the Mayans, Aztecs and your mom.
No chocolate is native to the Mayans and during the colonial times whey took it back to Europe.
The chocolate was brought from the New World to the Old World after 1492. After that the Mayans and the Aztecs of Central America had been Cultivating it .
The Mayans.
The Mayans found the cocoa bean and used it. I think.
The Mayans developed a calendar, underground catch basins of water, pottery, corn torillas, chocolate, dances, pyramids, and pottery.
Chocolate can be found to date back as far as 1750 BC. Mayans grew the cocoa trees right in their backyard.