The History of Chocolate Explained

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Chocolate is amazing. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, chocolate with nuts... It's amazing. And this video we will look at the history of chocolate. How was chocolate created? From the Native Americans such as the Aztecs and Mayans, to the first European chocolate factory, to the modern chocolate industry.:
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Credits
- Research: Mrs Scope
- Animation: History Scope (Avery)
- Audio: Seb. Soto
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Early History
07:55 Europeans Arrive
14:23 The Rest of the World
Image Credits
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Music Credits
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Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer. March 31, 2011. “Oversight of Public and Private Initiatives to Eliminate Worst Forms of Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.” Tulane University. issuu.com/stevebutton/docs/tul.... (2/25/14)
Mistrati, Miki, and Romano, U. Roberto. Shady Chocolate. Performed by Mistrati, Miki (2012; Copenhagen: Bastard Film & TV). DVD.
BBC. March 24, 2010. “Tracing the bitter truth of chocolate and child labour.” news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/fro.... (3/01/14)
McKenzie, David, and Swails, Brent. January 19, 2012. “Child Slavery and chocolate: All too Easy to find.” CNN. thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.... (2/22/14)
RFI. July 22, 2009. “Franco-Canadian journalist killed by first lady’s security guards, says French TV.” www1.rfi.fr/actuen/articles/11.... (3/01/14)
Voice of America. July 16, 2010. “Ivory Coast Arrests 3 Journalists over Cocoa Story.” www.voanews.com/content/ivory-.... (2/28/14)
Mistrati, Miki, and Romano, U. Roberto. The Dark Side of Chocolate. Performed by Mistrati, Miki (2010; Copenhagen: Bastard Film & TV). DVD.
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Kramer, Anna. March 6, 2013. “Women and the big business of chocolate.” Oxfam America. www.oxfamamerica.org/static/m... (9/4/17)
Hinshaw, Drew. October 6, 2010. “Governments Look to End Child Labor in West African Cocoa Farming.” Voice of America. www.voanews.com/content/govern.... (3/02/14)
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Gregory, Amanda. October 31, 2013. “Chocolate and Child Slavery: Say No to Human Trafficking this Holiday Season.” Huffington Post. www.huffingtonpost.com/amanda-... (8/23/17)
Global Finance. 2013. “The Poorest Countries in the World.” www.gfmag.com/component/conten.... (2/24/14)
Raghavan, Sudarsan, and Chatterjee, Sumana. 2001. “How Your Chocolate May be Tainted.” Knight Ridder Newspapers. www.rrojasdatabank.info/chocol.... (2/21/14)
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Пікірлер: 228

@unematrix Жыл бұрын

3:47 Is that a grinder with the Grindr logo on it? And uhhhh 7:00... Avery is getting spicy in this video

@Mikachu9426 Жыл бұрын

It's a pestle and mortar with the Grindr logo on it, yes ;)

@wetplant1748 Жыл бұрын

the only way Avery's gf can turn him on is with chocolate bars

@testificles240 Жыл бұрын

@@Mikachu9426 brilliant... absolutely brilliant, didnt even see it... nice XD

@grapejuice664 Жыл бұрын

💀

@YourGayOverlord Жыл бұрын

Curieux

@danskrr Жыл бұрын

Babe wake up, History Scope just uploaded a new video!

@AXAXAXAYt Жыл бұрын

Sis wake up history scope posted a new video

@emmanuelflores1557 Жыл бұрын

F for the people who never tasted chocolate

@davidbryden7904 Жыл бұрын

Including the ppl that grow coco, but are to poor to afford the finished product?😢

@AngDevigne Жыл бұрын

@rustomkanishka Жыл бұрын

F for those people and for those who work on the farms and will never be able to afford enough food, forget chocolate

@lyallfurphy Жыл бұрын

And for the dogs who have

@DaGreenCat_ Жыл бұрын

I have a friend who is allergic to chocolate and i feel soo bad for him 😢

@ThijquintNL Жыл бұрын

F for our chocolateless ancestors😢

@sunixjester Жыл бұрын

@titanicbigship Жыл бұрын

@belgarano4576 Жыл бұрын

@You-zo3in Жыл бұрын

@mrinmoybanik5598 Жыл бұрын

In India, historically we already have so many varieties of indigenous sweets and milk based confectioners that that chocolate faced stiff competition here. Well I wan't really fond of sweets much as a kid but enjoyed milk chocolates. Nice video though 👌!

@HistoryScope Жыл бұрын

From that point of view it makes sense that it's so popular in western cultures: our crops are incredibly bland. We have a few spices growing natively in Europe and some nuts, but anything interesting like pepper, nutmeg, or pre-industrial versions of candy all come from Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

@siddhantdeepful Жыл бұрын

I am pretty sure it did not hit off in India because Indians are used to very sweet confectionary(Like a questionable amount of sugar goes into them ). SO having sweets which were a bit bitter just did not seem appealing to them. My parents are not interested in milk chocolates because they are not as sweet as Indian confectionery.

@RK-cj4oc Жыл бұрын

@@siddhantdeepfulWhat kind of Indian sweets are " better" than chocolate?

@BausofHogs Жыл бұрын

Lmao at showing a whip while asking for subs

@dsxa918 Жыл бұрын

ROFLMAO @ having been subscribed for a while now

@baronvonjo1929 Жыл бұрын

I find it so bizarre Chocolate Chip cookies were not a thing until the 1930s. Nestle bought the recipe from a American woman. I think they paid her and gave her a life time supply of chocolate. They use her "Toll House" brand to this day as well. Chocolate Chip cookies are such a stable now but haven't really been a thing for even a century.

@tulip811 Жыл бұрын

The European aristocracy had their own porcelain cups only to drink chocolate. It comes with a lid so the chocolate stays warm 😊

@hitori3667 Жыл бұрын

2:57 “Stone-face drunk” > Literally stone faces Thank you, writer ❤

@HistoryScope Жыл бұрын

I felt very clever for coming up with that joke

@robbrown4621 Жыл бұрын

I think the stone face is probably because they are constipated from consuming too much chocolate! :)

@thelakeman2538 Жыл бұрын

Chocolate is pretty big in India today and has been all pervasive for my entire life living in large cities and all. But from what I can tell a few decades ago although they were a thing and most would've known about them they just weren't as pervasive as they're today, a lot of the chocolate niche was already filled by non-chocolate confectioneries and sweets (traditional or non-traditional), even today the word "chocolate" itself in India is a colloquialism that will refer to any sweet packaged stuff aimed at kids including both chocolates and candies but excluding the traditional sweets. Another factor I'd guess would be that pre-refrigeration the summer in a lot of Indian cities would be unsuitable to store them, but I doubt how big a role this plays since a lot of USA, Mexico, etc also get as hot during summers.

@sokolmihajlovic1391 9 ай бұрын

The humor is hillarious. Ty for your outstanding vids.

@nebularspace Жыл бұрын

I loved this video! You clearly have a passion for this topic and it showed.

@AdityaMehendale Жыл бұрын

Chocolate is not mass-consumed on the Indian subcontinent likely because: 1) Price --> For the kiloprijs of chocolate, you can get a lot of other tasty stuff; chocolate has less "bang for the buck". It's like why you don't eat mangoes every day in NL. 2) Storage --> With small moms-and-pops shops, and >30*C temperatures, "swiss-style" chocolate melts in the shops, and possibly recrystallizes into a disgusting mess, or needs to be stored in a refrigerator, which makes it taste like sawdust. Nobody has bothered to innovate to get a different formulation that is stable at 35*C. A notable exception is chocolate(-coated)-ice-cream, whereby the need to refrigerate levels the playing-field.

@Scrooge_McDuck1111 Жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend always love your documentaries, very educational. 🙂👍

@user-xw9ji6ny3p 4 ай бұрын

I love the sound quality of this video, really well done

@bobsbrain397 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video, thanks for making and sharing 💖🍫💖

@CalebxCiara Жыл бұрын

You should do The Collapse of the Roman Empire

@SushiElemental Жыл бұрын

No, this is now a chocolate only channel!

@CalebxCiara Жыл бұрын

@@SushiElemental True

@mruanova Жыл бұрын

you have an amazing sense of humor, i love your content

@KobraVR 10 ай бұрын

I always assumed chocolate was less popular in warmer climates due to it being harder to stop melting, especially in poorer regions

@RikkeMyE 9 ай бұрын

Gosh I love your videoes! ❤

@neezduts_ Жыл бұрын

I love chocolate. Hell, I look like chocolate, but chocolate saved this man’s life. Give it up to chocolate 👏. F for those who never had chocolate

@itsmeowen Жыл бұрын

so sad this only got 17k views, I loved this video

@forzaa867 Жыл бұрын

History Scope, you turned crazy in this video

@HistoryScope Жыл бұрын

how so? :D

@TheChannelofOrange Жыл бұрын

Great, now I am going buy chocolate

@CyberRager Жыл бұрын

Now that you have a video on it you have no running gag for your future episodes xd

@HistoryScope Жыл бұрын

what about GERMANY. WILL. BE. UNITED!

@petanikakaopakhaji 8 ай бұрын

helpful information

@TheNonplayer Жыл бұрын

dank u well meneer :) ...goede docu's

@gregoryturk1275 Жыл бұрын

F for Teophanu the farmer in 1365 in the Byzantine Empire who never ate chocolate.

@BogaBoga Жыл бұрын

Good to know that there are other people as addicted to chocolate as me!

@liberal-libertarian9605 Жыл бұрын

work on my local docks weve been unloading a cocoa bean ship this week, 20,000 tonne when you crack a bean open there's a tiny little chunk of chocolate, its very surreal knowing that's where chocolate comes from haha

@Chris_winthers Жыл бұрын

He's back

@Tony-fh2em Жыл бұрын

Frfr

@sunixjester Жыл бұрын

Chocolate, proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy.

@jakinluk2513 Жыл бұрын

und bier

@thedispenser8301 Жыл бұрын

2:32 Lmao

@danever159 Жыл бұрын

Great. Great video.

@emmanuelflores1557 Жыл бұрын

Sweet Sweet Chocolate =D

@tinahs8269 6 ай бұрын

I can't believe you didn't mention the US producers...I always thought Hershey here in Pennsylvania came up with successful milk chocolate bar before Nestle did. That entire town is devoted to chocolate production.

@bleached_anus1487 Жыл бұрын

New History Scope! Sweet!!!

@lukecash3500 Жыл бұрын

Ate a chocolate bar while watching this. Realized it's obligatory to watch this while tasting chocolate.

@itsmeowen Жыл бұрын

thanks for making a in-depth video on chocolate. al the other videos on other channels are like 5m long

@aarondemiri486 Жыл бұрын

God I love this channel.

@ioan_jivan Жыл бұрын

Awesome! I like chocolate on jellly :))

@-ze5hm Жыл бұрын

Watching this while eating chocolate

@erwindewit4073 Жыл бұрын

Man! I was SO close to running to the supermarket! Fortunately, it is sunday and I live in the countryside... SO yum! Also, spicy chocolate is great :)

@BuckeyeNationRailroader Жыл бұрын

11:55 All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for the daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere Their tears are filling up their glasses No expression, no expression Hide my head, I wanna drown my sorrow No tomorrow, no tomorrow And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take When people run in circles, it's a very, very Mad world, mad world

@user-ol7tk8te8l Жыл бұрын

Chocolate is life

@brainstormingsharing1309 Жыл бұрын

HAHA hello my friend. You can be 100% sure that you are not alone that like chocolate so much. And because I have an absolute passion for chocolate (sugar), and I eat chocolate every day and around the clock! Keep it up 👍👍👍👍👍

@EchoLog Жыл бұрын

Americans were smart farmers. Boats. Milk. How many times will KZfaq think I don't know anything about chocolate and show me a 101 course for the same god damned plant.

@joekeating3329 Жыл бұрын

Oh boy let's get some chocolate

@MissBabyForte Жыл бұрын

This is the perfect april fool video, it interesting and different but something that alot of people would like to know about. Thank you for sharing this video.

@GreatGloves Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Finland!

@bevinboulder5039 Жыл бұрын

Chocoholics everywhere salute you!

@Jadeschannel255 Жыл бұрын

The best thing ever is chocolate

@LordToxicis Жыл бұрын

i was scared this was an April Fools joke, but i was made the fool. well done HS!

@Kleexun Жыл бұрын

11:53 F

@superyamky Жыл бұрын

8:40 LOL😂

@superyamky Жыл бұрын

🍫❤️

@elation00 11 ай бұрын

07:00 oh you like that chocolate don't you, who's a good boy?

@KyloHen4162 Жыл бұрын

Dang now we have to wait until May 1 until your next video

@drunkendevil Жыл бұрын

“Babe! New History Scope dropped!” - Me

@namesurname1036 5 ай бұрын

Chocolate is SOOOO amazing

@MrGiygas1 Жыл бұрын

Can you do a video on the Manhattan Project, and the process of creating the first atomic bomb?

@luritdurit Жыл бұрын

I do agree chocolate is the best thing ever

@NoxyDoesStuff Жыл бұрын

wow

@adihelenagur7915 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the knowledge! I couldn’t click your video because I didn’t like the picture. I don’t like hearts loving romantic things.. :) thank you so much! So interesting and important information

@tulip811 Жыл бұрын

Yooo Nestlé sold the first milk chocolate??? Noooo

@psyxypher3881 Жыл бұрын

I have my own theory on why Asia and Africa aren't too interested in chocolate: The milk content. Lactase persistence isn't too common in these mitochondrial groups so perhaps they simply don't enjoy chocolate the way people who have lactase persistence would.

@gregoryturk1275 Жыл бұрын

Most of the world’s chocolate is grown in West Africa, kind of ironic lol.

@chidoking09 10 ай бұрын

but i love chockolate and i am Nigerian

@papazataklaattiranimam Жыл бұрын

Çikolota 👁️👁️

@vaibhavdpunjabi0152 Жыл бұрын

F for those unlucky chaps

@PossessedPotatoBird Жыл бұрын

Least chocolate obsessed Dutchman

@ze_baronkrigler7611 Жыл бұрын

I find it hilarious that Aristocrats drunk Hot Chocolate

@placeheldholdplace2050 Жыл бұрын

I'm not just pressing F for everyone who never got to try chocolate, but also because we ourselves are only 200 years into the chocolate age. Imagine if the chocolate bar had been discovered 2000 years ago, and places all over the world had been experimenting with it, and incorporating it into the recipes, and learning new ways to make it. Imagine a chocolate 2000 years into the future, and weep, for you will never taste it. but today's bars are still so good though, so there's that, at least.

@andro9009 Жыл бұрын

The fish guy from spongebob: Chocolate🍫!

@keithcastillo5434 5 ай бұрын

I like unsweetened cocoa it is the best source of minerals/electrolytes.

@shubhsiddhartha9409 Жыл бұрын

At last the true meaning of life is being discussed in detail.

@martialfantasy8772 Жыл бұрын

To the African Chocolate Economy Cheers!

@bennruda11 Жыл бұрын

Love to Ghirardelli chocolate

@Gancrothor-II 10 ай бұрын

Chocolate CHOCOLATE CHOCOLAAAATE CHOCOLAAAAATE!!!! -Tom from Sponge Squarepants

@justarandomaspie4132 Жыл бұрын

Finally, some good april fools content!

@just_a_turtle_chad Жыл бұрын

A turtle approves of this documentary on chocolate.

@robbrown4621 Жыл бұрын

Trader Joes (American supermarket) sells one pound Belgian chocolate bricks for only $7 per pound. And they have four or five types. :) :) :)

@alexrellion1458 Жыл бұрын

Small correction Theos means god in Greek, not Latin. Deus is god in Latin.

@luckyluciano1623 Жыл бұрын

I love Nutella! Sweet sweet Nutella 😋

@Ansset0 6 ай бұрын

37 seconds in... 2:45 in the morning.. I suddenly NEED to have chocolate. Just need 😜🤦.. although I eat chocolate maybe twice a year..

@polyherb4096 Жыл бұрын

Now that i finished the video after the first 12 minutes from its release...

@monkeeseemonkeedoo3745 Жыл бұрын

Giving the spongebob chocolate guy a run for his money

@RK-cj4oc Жыл бұрын

Could you Maybe do a " why are Turkic countries so Islamic" Why did the ancestors of modern Turkey for example choose Islam, Why did the central asian turks stay muslim even after being part of the christian russian empire for years and part of the atheist soviet union. Thank you and keep up the great work!

@AliClovis2899 3 ай бұрын

I will NOT overthink today, Jesus. Thanks DeMarcus! Love you and God bless

@grapejuice664 Жыл бұрын

6:58 Bruh 💀💀💀

@bristoled93 Жыл бұрын

Chocolate bars melt when it's hot, and I don't like eating chocolate in summer because it's not as nice in hot weather and I read a comment by an African saying in African culture men don't eat sweet things as much as women and children, it's not seen as manly.

@pingasbungus4517 Жыл бұрын

21 people who watched this video are allergic to cocoa beans

@TimRobertsen Жыл бұрын

13:28 Aah yes, I was afraid we wouldn't talk about ww2:p

@TheRealSpeedWolf 10 ай бұрын

I used to live in Asia and Africa, and I can tell you that it's not because they don't like chocolate. It's just that it's very expensive, costing almost as much as a full meal, like chicken with rice. The price of a Sneakers bar or Kit Kat bar is currently the same, but it doesn't mean they won't indulge when they have the means. You don't have to take my word for it, fly to Thailand or any part of Africa and compare the real food you can get for the price of a Sneakers bar. Chocolate is considered a luxury, especially good chocolate. Think of it like McDonald's being for poor people in the United States, but in other countries, it's for the middle class.

@Zaman805 2 ай бұрын

Chocolat is great

@bigfootjinxthecat8696 Жыл бұрын

CHICOLATEUEUEIEIISISIEOEOEO

@jonaspete Жыл бұрын

Its hot in south east asia so chocolate bars melt into a goop shape

@thebloodtrail 3 ай бұрын

To me, if you dont like chocolate, *you need to be on a watchlist, it is the gift from the Norse Gods and shame on ya if you say you dont like or tried chocolate*