The other factor that led to chocolate becoming popular with Spanish royalty was that it was adapted to Spanish tastes.
Explanation:
Once Cortes brought the cocoa back to Spain and introduced it to the King, the monks in monasteries who were know to have skills at preparing medicinal products and remedies were asked to process the beans and to adapt the product to Spanish customs and taste. They added spices that were more familiar to the Spanish royalty like nutmeg and cinnamon and they sweetened it with sugar. They also served it warm. It's popularity eventually spread to other countries in Europe like France and England.
I don't currently have access to means to show you this but according to users.humbolt.edu as for South America Brasil was one of the few areas controlled by the Portuguese and a lot of the rest was Spanish influence. hope that helps and let me know if you need any more
here are often disputes between the national government in Washington because the constitution does lay out specific powers for each level of government, but uses broad, nonspecific language.
