History of Chocolate
This century was when Spain began importing chocolate.
What is the 16th century?
Cacao was cultivated in this historical region.
What is Mesoamerica?
The explorer who brought cacao beans back to Europe.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The Aztecs used chocolate as a remedy for these medical troubles.
Name one country where child labor was found in cocoa farms.
What are Cameroon, Guinea, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone? (all are acceptable answers)
The year that Christopher Columbus brought back Cacao beans to Europe.
What is 1502?
The first reactions of Europeans to cacao when brought back from Mesoamerica.
What is (horrible/disgusting/drink for pigs)?
This explorer brought back chocolate milk to Europe.
Who is Hernan Cortez?
Chocolate drinks contain these properties.
What are spiritual and sexual properties?
What are sugar and fat?
This is the main order of chocolate's main purpose.
What is currency to medicine to beverage?
Chocolate originally tasted this way before the Europeans changed it.
What is bitter?
This inventor created milk chocolate.
Who is Daniel Peter?
The reason why cacao beans were used as currency.
What is highly valued by Mesoamericans?
This type of production destroys the rainforest.
What is cacao production?
4000 years ago, cacao was worth more than this metal.
What is gold?
Europeans added these 2 components to sweeten chocolate's original bitter taste.
What are vanilla extract and sugar?
This innovator made the closest present-day chocolate bar.
Who is Joseph Fry?
These trees are the main source of chocolate, which increases wildlife.
Most of the world's cocoa is produced in this region.
What is West Africa?
Joseph Fry discovered that by adding melted cacao butter to Dutch coca, he could make a moldable paste in this year.
What is 1847?
This was the original use of chocolate.
What is currency?
This Dutch Chemist invented powdered chocolate by creating the hydraulic press/cacao press.
Who is Coenraad van Houten?
What is keeping the soil healthy and reducing the need for artificial inputs?
Name one negative effect that can result from the destruction of the rainforest.
What are increasing greenhouse gas emissions, decreasing biodiversity, and habitat loss? (all are acceptable)