More recently, Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus discovered new lands while seeking to expand trade with spice-growing areas in Asia.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

The explorer Christopher Columbus brought cacao seeds to Spain after his trip to Central America in fifteen oh two.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

She explains that the Tainos greeted Christopher Columbus when he landed in the New World in 1492, but the Spanish conquistadors who followed him decimated the tribe.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05