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1700 BCE
Travel to U.S.
Thomas Jefferson brings vanilla beans from France to the U.S. -
1500 BCE
A trip across the ocean
Heraran Cortes comes to Mexico and brings vanilla beans back to Spain -
500 BCE
The first vanilla lovers
The Aztec use vanilla as medicine and to flavor there drinks -
Edmond albius
Edmond albius discovers how to pollinate the vanilla flower by hand