Chocolate itself first began as Xocolatl, or “bitter water,” a spiced drink made from ground cacao beans, chiles and spices ...

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Xocolatl “was mostly an upper-class extravagance, although the lower classes enjoyed it occasionally at weddings or other celebrations,” according to History. Aztec ruler Montezuma II ...

Allied acquiescence to these moves emboldened him. During the summer of 1938, he demanded that Czechoslovakia cede the ...