cocoa. For the Mayans and Aztecs, powdered cocoa beans were an everyday staple. From there, through Christopher Columbus and ...

It could be from “chocola-tl,” the word for the cocoa bean plus “tl,” meaning water ... European forms of the word might have been influenced by Mayan “chocol,” meaning hot, because in Europe ...

Dogs and turkeys may have been domesticated. The Maya were the first people to grow the cocoa plant for food. Cocoa was a gift from the gods. The Mayan word theobroma means food of the gods.