CNN report on Aztecs

Craig Berry cberry at cine.net
Thu Aug 24 18:51:39 UTC 2006


On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Joost Kremers wrote:

> it is said that the name means "where people are eaten" (presumably a
> loose translation) and was given by Hernán Cortés after the Spanish
> found out about the massacre.

I must say I was a bit surprised by the assertion that Cortes would name
the place in Nahuatl.

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