Christopher Columbus, along with Spanish explorer, made his fourth trip across
the Atlantic in the early 1500s, and arrived on the coast of Honduras.
In Central America, he discovered the value of cocoa beans, which were used as currency in many places.
In the sixteenth century, another explorer named Hernando Cortez took chocolate back to Spain.
The Spanish people added other ingredients such as sugar and vanilla to make it sweet, and it remained a Spanish secret for almost 100 years.
It finally spread to France in the seventeenth century after the marriage of Louis I to the Spanish princess Anna, who loved chocolate.
In about 1700, the English developed a new drink using chocolate milk, which became very fashionable.
The popularity of chocolate continued to spread farther across Europe and the Americas.
The only Asian country to adopt it at that time was the Philippines Chocolate was brought there when the Spanish invaded the country in the sixteenth century.