12. The natives cooked, smoke, ate, snorted and even possibly used tobacco as a weapon in war
13. Spanish soldiers talked about the natives coming out to attack them chewing herbs and spitting the juice at them
14. European sailors were the first to try out tobacco and bring it back to Europe, the Middle East, and even China
15. At first tobacco was seen as a tool the natives used for religious purposes and this thought invoked many laws restricting the use of tobacco
Notes de l'éditeur
Coffee consumption began in China and the Middle EastAt first coffee was used to keep holy men awake for worship
Christopher Columbus came across a Mayan canoe with chocolate beans insideThe Mayans called these bean looking objects ka-ka-wa, the Aztecs then changed the name to cacao, and the Spanish changed it to chocolate
During Columbus’s first trip to the Americas he noticed Indians smoking tobacco