Although Christopher Columbus was the first European to carry beans back to Europe (around 1502) they were as curiosities but it is his fellow countryman, the conquistador Herman Cortes, who is credited with introducing them to the Western World a little over 40 years later.
Hernan Cortes recognizing its potential he took a load of cocoa beans back to Spain. These were used to seed plantations in Trinidad, Haiti and the West African island of Fernando Po and gave Spain a virtual monopoly of the cocoa market for almost a century.
Freedy, I just wanted to point out that Christophe Columbus was born in Italy and Hernan Cortes was from Spain. They couldn't be "countrymen" since were not from the same place in Europe.
chocolate was found when bk people melted in the carribean
Monkeys did not discover chocolate, people did.
He was the first to discover chocolate
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Hernan Cortes did not discover chocolate. Chocolate had been consumed by indigenous Mesoamerican civilizations for centuries before Cortes arrived in the Americas in the 16th century. Cortes did, however, introduce chocolate to Europe after encountering it during his encounters with the Aztec empire.
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