Cortez learned that the Aztecs treated cocoa beans as a form of currency, and that the Aztecs demanded taxes levied upon their subjugated tribes to be paid in the form of cocoa beans. One of Cortez's men, Hernando de Ovieda Valdez, reported that a rabbit could be purchased for four cocoa beans, a prostitute's services for ten, and a slave for 100. Having learned that in the new world money really did grow on trees, Cortez started to cultivate cocoa plantations. He eventually started plantations in Mexico, Trinidad, Haiti, and generally all over the Carribbean.
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he was a voyager and sailed on the arctic ocean for 20 years
Christopher Columbus is credited with introducing Europe to chocolate, however Hernan Cortez did bring back a boatload of cocoa beans when he returned to Europe from South America.
The spanish leader was Christopher Columbus
Yes Heran Cortes had a pet it was a dog!
The Columbian exchange
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Hernan Cortez first encountered gold in the Americas after conquering the Aztec Empire in 1521. The Aztecs possessed vast amounts of gold, which Cortez and his men looted during their conquest.
Hernan Cortez was the Spanish explorer and adventurer, not soldier, who conquered the Aztecs
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