35. inventions and inventors

Maya

2000 BCE

Maya civilization began in B.C 2000. They invented the chocolate in America, in Mesoamerica. The chocolate is important for humanity because we eat it often.

Chocolate

600 BCE

Chocolate was created in Mexico. Cocoa was first grown around 600AD by the Maya Indians, who lived in the Amazon region. The chocolate became important to Aztecs because they belived God Quetzalcoatl to present them the cocoa trees and they used cocoa in sacred ceremonies as gifts to the gods. Nowadays is important because we consume it every day.

Ice cream

1500

Ice cream, was created in the 16th century in Italy. The first ice cream cone was painted by Italo Machion in New York in 1896. But the first ice cream was invented by Francisco Procopio, and Marco Polo brought back recipes for water ices from Asia.

Francesco Procopia, ice cream

1651

Francesco Procopio was born in 1651 in Paris and died in 1727. He was an Italian cook, recognized as the father of ice cream. He invented the ice crem because he played in the snow when he was child and this inspirated him.