The Scourge of the Suns of Han

These are the nicknames of Huang Yi, known in English as the Yellow River.

The second longest river in Asia, its ominous alternate nomenclature, is because of its

historically frequent fatal floods, yet it's also the equivalent of the fertile crescent

of ancient Chinese civilization, and in 5,000 BCE, the neolithic Yang Shao people flourished

by its shores.

Pioneering many innovations in agriculture and construction, the Yang Shao were also

avidate pottery, and in the third millennium BCE, built the first known instances of a round,

hollow instrument with a clapper inside that struck a musical note when rung.

Centuries later, in 500 CE, on the other side of the world, the Nawa people split off

from the Udo Aztecans and migrated to Selenaria, now known as Central America.

By the 13th century, members of the Nawa had organized into the Aztec Empire, and what

of their staple foods was a flat-pred made of ground, pressed maize that they called T'laz

Kali.

The Aztecs and nearby indigenous people took to filling the flat corncakes with fish,

and by the time Spanish Colonials arrived it was an established local cuisine.

The infamous Cortez was said to have indulged in a feast of the dish.

Spanish Colonials would re-dub T'laz Kali as tortillas, after the similarly shaped Spanish-style

egg dishes of the same name, and they had a different name altogether for the dish that

consisted of a tortilla stuffed with meat.

In the mid-20th century CE, an American World War II veteran combined these two items

of disparate century and continent.

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