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🗓️ 2 February 2017
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0:00.0 | The Scourge of the Suns of Han |
0:08.4 | These are the nicknames of Huang Yi, known in English as the Yellow River. |
0:12.0 | The second longest river in Asia, its ominous alternate nomenclature, is because of its |
0:15.7 | historically frequent fatal floods, yet it's also the equivalent of the fertile crescent |
0:19.7 | of ancient Chinese civilization, and in 5,000 BCE, the neolithic Yang Shao people flourished |
0:25.2 | by its shores. |
0:26.7 | Pioneering many innovations in agriculture and construction, the Yang Shao were also |
0:29.9 | avidate pottery, and in the third millennium BCE, built the first known instances of a round, |
0:34.8 | hollow instrument with a clapper inside that struck a musical note when rung. |
0:39.2 | Centuries later, in 500 CE, on the other side of the world, the Nawa people split off |
0:43.2 | from the Udo Aztecans and migrated to Selenaria, now known as Central America. |
0:47.7 | By the 13th century, members of the Nawa had organized into the Aztec Empire, and what |
0:51.7 | of their staple foods was a flat-pred made of ground, pressed maize that they called T'laz |
0:56.6 | Kali. |
0:57.6 | The Aztecs and nearby indigenous people took to filling the flat corncakes with fish, |
1:01.6 | and by the time Spanish Colonials arrived it was an established local cuisine. |
1:05.0 | The infamous Cortez was said to have indulged in a feast of the dish. |
1:08.4 | Spanish Colonials would re-dub T'laz Kali as tortillas, after the similarly shaped Spanish-style |
1:13.4 | egg dishes of the same name, and they had a different name altogether for the dish that |
1:16.8 | consisted of a tortilla stuffed with meat. |
1:19.3 | In the mid-20th century CE, an American World War II veteran combined these two items |
1:23.0 | of disparate century and continent. |
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