| Chocolate has long been given as a gift,
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| | Columbus, although Columbus did not know
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| particularly as a gift of affection or
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| | what to do with the beans. Later, The
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| passion.The forerunner to chocolate was
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| | Aztec King Montezuma presented Cortez and
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| the Aztec drink xocoatl, a mix of water,
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| | his conquistadors with gifts of cocoa
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| spices and ground cacao beans. Aztecs
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| | beans. It is recorded that the Aztecs
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| used the beans as a form of currency and
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| | favored the beans above gold.In 1615
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| for payment of tribute to their kings. An
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| | Spanish Princess Anna of Austria gave to
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| Indian Chief is said to have made a gift
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| | her new husband, King Louis XIII, a gift
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| of a basket of cocoa beans to Christopher
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| | of chocolate.
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