Last Month's Question and Winner

Last month's Winner was Joanne Molzah from MINNETONKA, MN, who correctly answered the question: When Hernán Cortés (1485-1547), also known as Hernando Cortez, and his conquistadores arrived in the New World on April 22, 1519, they discovered that the inhabitants (Aztecs Mexicas) made flat corn breads. The native Nahuatl name for these was...
A) "round cake"
B) tlaxcalli
C) 'little tart'
D) Pupusa
The correct answer is B) tlaxcalli. The native Nahuatl name for these was tlaxcalli. The Spanish gave them the name tortilla.
Source: Hernam Cortes: From Second Letter to Charles V, 1520, From: Oliver J. Thatcher, ed., The Library of Original Sources (Milwaukee: University Research Extension Co., 1907), Vol. V: 9th to 16th Centuries, pp. 317-326.