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Who brought cocoa beans to Europe?

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Christopher Columbus brought a few cocoa beans back to show Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, but it was the Spanish friars who first introduced chocolate to Europe more broadly. It wasn't until the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs that chocolate could be imported to Europe, where it quickly became a court favorite. The first recorded shipment of chocolate to Europe for commercial purposes was in a shipment from Veracruz, Mexico to Sevilla in 1585.

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The conquistador Hernan Cortés was the first European to know that the cocoa beans were valuable but someone had brought them back before him. Christopher Columbus stole some from a Mayan trader and brought them over between 1502-1504. He knew they were worth something, but didn't understand what they were or what to do with them.

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The native Americans were first to discover the cocoa bean.

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Montezuma, leader of the Aztecs, when he offered a drink made from them to Cortez and the conquistadors.

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they grow on trees they were discovered by the mayans.

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Actually, they were found a long time ago by the Rama people of Nicaragua.

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Christopher Columbus was believed to have robbed a Mayan trader and upon inspecting his booty, learning about cocoa beans at that time. He brought cocoa beans along with other treasures back to Europe. He thought they were some kind of nut and no one really paid much attention to them at the time.


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