Native peoples also introduced Europeans to chocolate, made from cacao seeds and used by the Aztec in Mesoamerica as currency. Mesoamerican Indians consumed unsweetened chocolate in a drink with chili peppers, vanilla, and a spice called achiote. This chocolate drink—xocolatl—was part of ritual ceremonies like marriage. Chocolate contains theobromine, a stimulant, which may be why native people believed it brought them closer to the sacred world. What evidence supports the idea that chocolate had religious significance for the Aztecs?

Question 1 options:

a : “consumed unsweetened chocolate in a drink with chili peppers, vanilla, and a spice called achiote”

b ; “introduced Europeans to chocolate”

“believed it brought them closer to the sacred world”

"used by the Aztec in Mesoamerica as currency"