1. THE AZTECS AND THE
MAYANS

2. LIVED IN
SOUTHERN
MEXICO
AND
NORTHERN
GUATEMAL
A IN
CENTRAL
AMERICA
FROM
ABOUT

3. THE MIDDLE
OF THEIR
CITIES, WH
ERE THE
EMPEROR
WOULD
LIVE. THESE
TEMPLES
WERE ALSO
BUILT TO
HONOUR
THE MANY

4. THE
TEMPLE
RUN
DESIGN
WAS
ACTUALLY
INSPIRED
BY THE
MAYAN
TEMPLES.

5. THE MAYANS AND
CACAO

6. THE MAYANS
USED CACAO
AS A
CURRENCY

7. One small rabbit 1 bean
One Turkey Egg 3 beans
A Large Tomato 2 beans
A Bunch of Bananas 1 bean
One Turkey 4 beans
A newly picked avocado 5 beans
Five Chillis 30 beans
Some pine bark(firewood) 100 beans

8. THERE IS
EVEN
RECORDS
OF
COUNTERF
EIT BEANS
BEING
MADE OUT
OF CLAY
TO PASS
ASS
CURRENCY

9. Only the richest people made their
cacao beans into a drink. Why do
you think this was?

10. In the 12th
century the
Aztecs went
to war and
took over the
Maya tribes.

11. THE AZTECS BUILT A
SUPERCITY CALLED
TECHNOCTITLAN

12. ONLY PROBLEM WAS…

13. NO CACAO TREES

14. THEY HAD TO HAVE IT BROUGHT
UP FROM THE FORESTS. THE
EMPERORS ALWAYS MADE
SURE TO KEEP A BIG STORE OF
CACAO

15. SOME EMPERORS EVEN
SMOKED CACAO

16. WHEN COLUMBUS CAME
LOOKING FOR GOLD HE
ALMOST DISCOVERED
CACAO, BUT IN HIS
DESPERATION FOR GOLD HE
IGNORED IT.

17. FERDINAND COLUMBUS; CHRISTOPHER’S SON
WROTE THIS IN HIS DIARY…
They were taking over a boat when somebody spilled
some cacao, and the natives ran for the beans
“as if an eye had fallen
from their heads”
Because they were so wrapped up in looking for
Gold Columbus and his son completely
overlooked the importance of the Cacao Bean