History of chocolate

The people of Mesoamerica learned to prepare the beans of native cacao trees as far as...

• 1700 BCE

• 1800 BCE

• 1900 BCE

• 2000 BCE

People in Mesoamerica created a drink by grinding and mixing cocoa beans with cornmeal and...

• coffee powder

• coca leaves

• sugar

• chilly peppers

Aztecs believed that cocoa was a heavenly food gifted to them by the god...

• Tlalocayotl

• Quetzalcoatl

• Huēhuehteōtl

• Cihuatecayotl

Aztecs gave cocoa beans as a reward to successful...

• soldiers

• priests

• medicine men

• artisans

The first time Europeans encountered cocoa beans was when Cortés visited the court of emperor Montezuma in...

• 1517

• 1518

• 1519

• 1520

At first, cocoa was used as a medicine to treat ailments such as...

• the flu

• headaches

• upset stomachs

• disentery

The production of chocolate completely changed with the introduction of the cocoa press in...

• 1628

• 1728

• 1828

• 1928

In 1875, milk chocolate was invented by a chocolatier from...

• Belgium

• Switzerland

• France

• Italy

At the start of the 20th century, due to massively increasing demand, the production of chocolate moved from South American cocoa plantations to...

• West Asia

• Eastern Europe

• South Africa

• West Africa

Many of the plantations that supply Western companies use slaves and child labour. The number of children affected by this is estimated to be around...

• half a million

• one million

• two million

• three million