The History of Chocolate

  First chocolate was consumed as a drink. The first cacao residues were found on the Pacific coast of Chiapas. They belong to 1900 BCE. After that Olmec people grew cacao beans in South America in 1700 BC.
  Later Mayans saw an animal eating a fruit of a cacao tree. That cacao tree was grown by Olmec people. Then Mayans learned how to use the fruit and beans. They started to make drink of chocolate in 400 AD. It was an important drink in the past. This drink was only appropriate for the royal family, ordinary people could drink it rarely because chocolate was expensive and hard to produce.
  By the 15th century Aztecs met with Cacao. The rulers, priests, rugged soldiers and famous traders coul drink cacao or chocolate. The Spanish inventors Christopher Columbus and Hernan Cartes presented this chocolate drink to the Aztec King in the 16th century. The investors took this drink to their homeland and learned how to prepare it.
This drink consisted of ground cacao beans. Aztecs used to add pepper and some other ingredients to the drink . However, Spanish people were drinking it sweet. After 80 years the melted chocolate was sold in England to make chocolate bars. In this way a lot of chocolate houses appeared. Now we are consuming chocolate in various types.