Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl.
However, Cortés later abandoned this project.
Cortés then introduced cacao and vanilla beans to Europe.
The first transatlantic chocolate
encounter occurred in 1519 when Hernán Cortés visited the court of Moctezuma at Tenochtitlan.
Some Aztecs did not want to fight against the soldiers of Cortés, because they thought they were gods.
As recorded by Cortés's lieutenant, the king had 50 jugs
of the drink brought out and poured into golden cups.
When he wasn't busy looting and destroying cities,
conquistador Hernando Cortés took the opportunity to try an avocado in Mexico.
Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, a Mexica descendant and the author of Codex Ixtlilxochitl,
estimated that one in five children of the Mexica subjects was killed annually.
When Cortés and his men arrived in Cholula in October 1519,
some 1,800 years after the pyramid was constructed, they massacred around 3,000 people in a single hour- 10 percent of entire city's population- and levelled many of their religious structures.
When Cortés and his men arrived in Cholula in October 1519,
some 1,800 years after the pyramid was constructed, they massacred around 3,000 people in a single hour- 10 per cent of entire city's population- and levelled many of their religious structures.