https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-oldest-chocolate-was-made-5300-years-ago-south-american-rainforest?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=ownedSocial&fbclid=IwAR1ryNwx3qwICsVhcZ-asIgqxeEnBvcthorzqHch6Vblq_iFeIXMTnL0Vb8 This link tells us a lot about what we think we know and what we don’t know about the Americas. Trade routes around Afroeurasia are extremely well documented, but pre-Colombian trade routes around the Americas less so. We know that corn, originally cultivated in Meso-America was traded to North and South America and became a staple crop in the Andes. Native people were farming it on the east coast when the English arrived. We know that parrots and other birds were traded to what is now the American Southwest from what is now Guatemala. But Until recently we didn’t know that chocolate is originally from a tree, or a family of trees, native to the Amazon.
Chocolate Comes from the Amazon
Chocolate Comes from the Amazon
Chocolate Comes from the Amazon
https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-oldest-chocolate-was-made-5300-years-ago-south-american-rainforest?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=ownedSocial&fbclid=IwAR1ryNwx3qwICsVhcZ-asIgqxeEnBvcthorzqHch6Vblq_iFeIXMTnL0Vb8 This link tells us a lot about what we think we know and what we don’t know about the Americas. Trade routes around Afroeurasia are extremely well documented, but pre-Colombian trade routes around the Americas less so. We know that corn, originally cultivated in Meso-America was traded to North and South America and became a staple crop in the Andes. Native people were farming it on the east coast when the English arrived. We know that parrots and other birds were traded to what is now the American Southwest from what is now Guatemala. But Until recently we didn’t know that chocolate is originally from a tree, or a family of trees, native to the Amazon.