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Chocolate: Ancient Currency of Mesoamerica
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Did you know chocolate wasn't just a treat in ancient Mesoamerica. It was literal money. The Aztecs valued
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cacao beans so highly that you could buy a turkey for one hundred beans or trade them for cloth
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and tools. Counterfeiters even hollowed out beans and filled them with dirt to scam
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people. Spanish conquistadors were baffled when they arrived and saw people treating
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chocolate like gold. Imagine paying for your groceries with candy bars today. Wild how something
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we snack on casually was once more valuable than actual coins.
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