Descendants of this historical state illustrated its past with a paneled lienzo canvas and staged Corpus Christi pageants described by Motolinía (“moh-toh-lin-EE-uh”). The Dawn of Everything argues that a deliberative democratic council led this state, citing a chronicle rediscovered by Zelia Nuttall. Within a viceroyalty, this state’s honorary hidalgo (“ee-DAHL-go”) governors ran an autonomous cabildo whose Actas record them founding Chichimeca colonies. This city-state is named for tortillas. Leaders of this confederacy detained Totonac (“toh-TOH-nock”) emissaries and led Otomí (“oh-toh-MEE”) warriors in ambush before burning Cholula. Its four sub-āltepētls included Tizatlan, whose tlatoāni (“tla-toh-AH-nee”) Xīcohtēncatl (“shee-ko-TEN-cottle”) betrothed his daughter to Pedro de Alvarado to cement an alliance with Hernán Cortés. For 10 points, Aztec Flower Wars targeted what nearby Nahua confederacy that names a small state northwest of Puebla? ■END■
ANSWER: Tlaxcala (“tlosh-KAH-lah”) [or Tlaxcallān; or Confederacy of Tlaxcala or Tlahtōlōyān Tlaxcallan; accept Tlaxcaltecs or Tlaxcaltecatl or Tlaxcalteca; accept Free and Sovereign State of Tlaxcala or Estado Libre y Soberano de Tlaxcala; accept Tlaxcalan Actas, History of Tlaxcala, Historia de Tlaxcala, or Lienzo de Tlaxcala; prompt on New Spain, Nueva España, Viceroyalty of New Spain, or Virreinato de Nueva España] (Francisco Cervantes de Salazar wrote the Crónica de Nueva España.)
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