The Maya
Chocolate History
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In what country do the Maya live today?

Mexico

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In what century did the Spanish sail to Meso America?

The 16th century.

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It is a word that means ... the things we put in chocolate like cocao, milk and sugar. 

Ingredients.

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It is something very old OR a long-long time ago.

Ancient

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What big bird can be seen on the mexican national flag?

An eagle.

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When did the story of the Maya people begin?


1900 BCE

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What did the Spanish add to the bitter cocao drink to make it more delicious?

Honey or sugar.

200

It's a verb that means ... to put water in a cup. 

pour

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It is and adjective and a noun to describe food like ice cream. We learned it in the lesson about chocolate.

Frozen (adj.) dessert (noun).

200

These are the colors of the Mexican national flag.

Red, white and green.

300

Maya people made a drink from cocao beans and used it as ________. It is a noun.

Currency OR money!

300

What ingredient did a Swiss chocolatier add to make it more popular?

Milk

300

This is the kind of weather that the cocao tree likes.

Tropical weather.

300

It is a word that means ... to find something new.

Discover

300

This is a kind of chocolate bar that is popular in China. It has the name of a kind of bird (in English).

Dove.

400

What ingredient did the Maya put in their cocao drink? 

Caocao, chili pepper and corn meal.

400

What was the nationality of the man who built a special machine to make chocolate?

He was Dutch. He ws from Holland.

400

It's and adjective that describes what cacao beans taste like. 

bitter

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It's an adjective that describes something that is not a fluid or a gas. 

Solid.

400

This is a word that decribes ancient people that had an old culture with language, writing and big cities.

Civilization.

500

What was the name of the Maya god that gave them the cocao bean?

Kukulkan

500

What it the name of the popular American chocolate bar in the brown wrapper that people can buy in Chinese shops today?

(It's English name).

Snickers. Say it like "sneakers".

500

This is an adjective OR verb that means word that something is very important to you. 

Valued.


500

It is "something small" I eat when I am a little bit hungry, like a chocolate bar or a cookie.

a Snack.

500

We can see these great things in Mexico that the Maya people built.

The Mayan Pyramids

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