History of Chocolate
There are contradictions in defining where it comes from the word Chocolate. Although it is clear that it comes from the word "xocolatl" word meaning "sparkling water" (xoco: foam - atl: water), some sources indicate that this was the name of the drink was offered to the Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes Mexico upon arrival in 1519, when the Aztec emperor Moctezuma with if people took him for a reincarnation of the god Quetzalcoatl, having arrived with his troops, on the same spot where he had promised to return, as he prayed to legend, the God above . Montezuma Cortez then give him the treatment due to a deity and would offer the drink, only open to people of high social position. This episode would give the scientific name for the cacao plant, Theobroma which means the Greek: Food of the Gods. The Spanish were the fruit used by the Aztecs for the preparation of this drink called "Amygdala pecuniary" as it was widely used as currency comercial.Otras sources Xocolatl indicate that the word comes from the indigenous Guaja inhabited Island, off the Honduran coast, where Christopher Columbus discovered the Indians ate a pretty strong and bitter drink, producing energy and vitality, which bore its name.