INDIAN DISCOVERIES

Do you know it? Indians of North and Central America have invented things that you have in your way of live, like food, sweets, medicine and also sports!
Here you can see some examples:

CHOCOLATE:

The Ancient Maya Indians were the first to make chocolate. The did not have sugar, so their chocolate was not sweet.

CHEWING GUM:

Thousand of years ago, The Aztec Indians chewed gum, which they got from trees. Later, North American Indians introduced chewing gum to white men.

BASKETBALL:

Basketball has its origins in a 3,000-year-old ball game played by the Olmec Indians of Mexico and Central America. The Olmec ball was the first team sport in history.

MEDICINE:

North American Indians used anesthetics many years before Western doctors did. They made the anesthetics from plants.