The ancient civilisation that discovered chocolate - BBC REEL
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- Contrary to popular belief, chocolate was not first enjoyed by the Europeans, nor by the ancient Mayans. A team of scientists discovered cacao remains in the Ecuadorian Amazon dating back to 5,500 years ago belonging to the Mayo Chinchipe Marañon people.
The domestication of cacao plants, as well as pottery and architectural remains reveal a lost civilisation that lived in the Amazon rainforest - a discovery which raises more questions than answers.
Video by Daniel Tapia & Cristina Munoz
Narrator: Sam Hartford
Commissioning Editor: Griesham Taan
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I love these insightful videos that opens our mind to the realities of the past. The Amazon is full of amazing species
What an interesting and informative episode.
Thanks for shining a light on the origins of one of my favorite foods.
Finally some videos about this in English! This is incredibly important, and not just because of cacao.
The translation into English of what the Spanish speaking researcher says is impeccable!
Thank you for sharing, i love it!
Here in Guatemala, if you’re feeling under the weather or with a bit of a cold, Maya people will recommend drinking hot chocolate (not to be confused with the powdered crap from Nestlé). It does make you feel better in no time.
Don´t forget the chili, this jungle gift is also from ancient Ecuador.
No they’re not
Added to the cacoa
I knew chocolate was medicine! Makes me feel better every time I take it 🤕😊
Chocolate is more important than medicine. Chocolate is life!
@@ltlbuddha I'd main line it if I could 😊
yes its one of the most powerful things you can take i think, in terms of natural medicine because of the high polyphenol content. but it should be raw 100% unprocessed powder. its better if its heated up also, so a nice cup of hot chocolate is really good for you.
Chocolate and cacao are not the same thing. Cacao is medicine. Chocolate is not.
Chocolate just sends down the same hormone cocktail as one gets from s3x, that's why you feel nice after eating it.
@@tjmarx I think I was just trying to be cute and get a smile out of a few people.
Hey, I've been there. lmao Santa Ana Florida. And the chocolate shop in Vilca.
Modern humans, that's people running the same software as us with the same bodies, have been around between 200K and 300K years, depending on which evidence you take.
The idea that for the bulk of that period we were just standing around trying to pick fruit and hunt, and only a few thousand years ago agriculture suddenly occurred is frankly intellectually insulting.
As much as I love chocolate, I should have copies of that civilization's art in my home.
Chocolatl or Xokólatl is a náhuatl word...
Where is this in Ecuador?
In Amazon region at southeast of the country.
The beans can be left to ferment to make an alcoholic beverage.
The beans are not sweet but very bitter.
First time l tried a mouthful of Guinea pig or Squirrel, smothered in a plain cocoa Mole was my last. Has to be an acquired taste.
Aloha! Much love and respect from Hawaii ❤🤙🏽
More insights into the fact that advanced civilisations existed for a lot longer than we believe and before European colonisation
yeah the info that I have is that genetically/botanically Cacao trees come from the edges of the Amazon basin. Probably used by local tribes and traded between different nations along the millennia . It also seems weird to me to think of the origin of Cacao in mesoamerica because it was so and valuable as to be used as currency, possibly pointing out to a certain scarcity, while it is endemic and widespread further south. I guess a lot of bias and a strange sense of nationalistic pride can mislead us and prevent us from further discovering more and more intricate details about our past.
Whoever it was, is a magnificent genius...🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫
Can't steal the origen of chocolaate it's like Grinch wanting to steal christmas, can't steal it fore many things: The words cacao and chocolate come from Nahuatl native lenguage. Moctezuma Aztec King gave franciscan friar Jeronimo Aguilar and Hernan Cortez the tool and food recipe to prepare the drink of chocolate. The history is in the stone monastery ( Monasrerio de piedra ) province of zaragoza Espana where Jereonimo Aguilar lived
Are you dumb? Didn’t you just watch the video??? It’s you that is trying to steal this from Ecuador. Anyone can put a name on anything that doesn’t mean it’s from there. Clearly the archeologists said 5,500 years ago and 2000 years before not 100
Years 2000 years before the Aztecs!!! Get that through your head you can debate that it’s science. Stop
The primitive humans, long before 2,3 thousand years ago would've known the plants in their environment, I'm sure the use of many plants goes way back in time to our ancestors.
"Cacao was not only use for the gods, as in Mesoamerica."
Goes to show how much he knows of Mesoamerica.
...feeling a bit under the weather today, think I'll make myself some chicken and chocolate soup. Yum.
Ummm who mixed the audio ? It's so loud it's distorting ! C'mon BBC ! You're the world benchmark for Doco quality !! 😕
Chocolate was sacred to the Nicarao people of pre-columbian Nicaragua
I have visited Ecuador, and they still produce the best chocolate bars in the world. I guess the Incas, who conquered Ecuador, brought it in, because Peru also has very good drinking chocolate
You're getting the years completely wrong. They said the Mayo Chinchipe Marañon cultivated cacao in Ecuador 5500 years ago. The Incas are only around 800 years old. That's like saying the Ottoman Empire built the pyramids in Egypt.
They actually start by giving an approximate date of 5,000 years, the Incas were only a tribe 800 yrs ago. Also notice Ecuador is a modern conception, in which Incas ruled only the western realm.
@@juanmiguelreyesguerr no, you are not understanding what I said. I am aware that the Incas were fairly recent, but someone imported chocolate to Peru and it could very well have been the Incas, because Peru's best drinking chocolate comes from Cusco, the old Inca capital. Also well before the Incas, some 7500 years ago, people living in what is now Peru began cultivating potatoes, which was used by the Incas to feed their armies which conquered so much territory
@@rambacu do read my reply to English Blend - it applies 100% to your commentary
The Incas never conquered Ecuador are you stupid?? They clearly say it originated in Ecuador the Peruvians always want to steal everything from Ecuador wasn’t the land they took enough?? Even the ceviche they want to say it’s theirs it’s insane they have to stop
Cacao is from the highlands of Guatemala
Didn’t you just see the video, why do people always want to take everything away from Ecuador. It’s not from Guatemala nor Mexico or Peru
Correction- Cannot be contrary to history: Xocolatl, the correct spelling of Chocolate, in its original language of Nahuatl -- the language of the mayans and aztecs in Mexico and Guatemala was given to Cortez the Spanish explore by the Mexican Aztecs and mayans as a gift. Cortez then took it back to Spain and Europe. Xocolatl has been in use many years in Mexico and Guatemala long before the mention here.
Cacao is a plant native to the amazon rain forest. Has México Amazon rain forest? NO
@loveLove-gw2td no te preoucupes no pueden robar el origen del chocolate es como si Grinch quisiera robar la Navidad no pueden por muchas cosas: la palabra cacao y chocolate vienen de la lengua autoctona nahuatl y Moctezuma el Rey Azteca les dio al fraile Jeronimo Aguilar y Hernan Cortez la herramienta y receta para hacer la bebida del chocolate, la historia esta en el Monasterio de Piedra en Zaragoza Espana en donde el fraile vivia
@@alexandergil7424Can't steal the origen of chocolate it's like Grinch wanting to steal christmas, can't steal it fore many things. The words cacao and chocolate come from Nahuatl native lenguage. Moctezuma Aztec King gave franciscan Friar Jeronimo Aguilar and Hernan Cortez the tools and food recipe to prepare the drink of chocolate. The history is in the Stone Monastery ( Monasterio de Piedra) province of Zaragoza Espana were Jeronimo Aguilar lived
Are you dumb?? Jesus they just said it originates in Ecuador 5,500 years ago and 2000! Years before the Aztecs, it doesn’t matter what they called it or who they gave it to if another civilization had cacao 2000 years before them people are so stupid they want to say dumb things they didn’t invent it and it’s not from there it’s not Mexican it’s Ecuadorian stop it’s science you can’t debate time.
Wrong!
The sound is awful in this video. It's completely distorted and clearly peaking.
Claro, un equatoriano dice que el chocolate proviene de su país.
😂
No ves el video o eres ciego? Creo que estúpido. Claramente dice que el cacao originó en Ecuador 5,500 años atrás y 2000 años antes que los aztecas. O es por que no sabes inglés?
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Chocolate was made by mesoamerican civilitation!!
Oh chocolate that sweet taste of deliciousness hmm chocolate oh boy I wish I can get my hands on a coco bean oh boy I already know what to do with a coco bean oh boy chocolate
Except that coco beans are bitter. The sweetness is added sugar. Yes, I am officially a Party Pooper.
they are just speculating, why ecutorians doesn't eat mole, or atole non-sense.
Nada tiene que ver eso, el video claramente habla de las infusiones que los pobladores de allí hacían, y como veneraban este fruto y posteriormente lo comercializaron llevándolo a Mesoamérica; donde también se le dio veneración y de donde se dio a conocer tras la conquista española. Por cierto, acá en Ecuador hay una cultura muy rica en torno al chocolate, se puede encontrar en miles de variedades y basta decir que es uno de los mas premiados y valorados del mundo.
Are you dumb?? An archeological site with carbon dating it’s not speculation it’s facts they found traces of chocolate and cacao 5,500 years ago. It’s science stop being dumb
It's sad that the BBC has to use arrows in their tumbnails.
It’s sad how dumb you are