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anasazi-cl
anasazi;culture mr. B-SS-T1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anasazi | culture that existid from 1200 bc th 1300 ad in thecorners area of sw u.s best known for the ruins of ther monumental cliff dewlings at places like Messa Verde, which they aboandoned at the end of th 13th century. |
| anasazi 2 | Navaho word which, depending on pronuunciation |
| Mesa Verde | spanish for green platue. National park in southwestern Colorado, site of many Anasazi cliff dwellings. The Anasazi region around Mesa Verde. San Juan River region. |
| pueblo culture | spanish for town indian village in the American Southwest |
| Chaco Canyon | Extensive Ancietn puebloan culture in nw New Mexico; Known for massive stone bulidings of multiple stories conataing hundereds of rooms, extensive roads and water contral systems. |
| Aztec Ruins | Anasazi villiage in New Mexico wiht the largest reconstructed ceremonial kiva |
| bandelier | National monument containg a number of ancestral pueblo homes,muilt story dwellings,kivas, rock paniting and petroglyphs. some of the dwellings |
| Tuizigoot | ancient hilltop agricultral pueblo in AZ that consisted of 110 one,two and three-story structures |
| Hopi | Beliveid to be descended from the ancient Puebloan cultures who constructed large apartment-house complexesvin NE Arizona and NE New Mexico along with Mogollon Rim, from 1100-1300 AD,when they abandond thier villages. |
| Zuni | Like Hopi descendonts of the Anasazi |
| Nacajo | aka "Dene" people were hunter gether until they adopted Pueblo life. Known for raising sheep,vlanket weeving, and pottery. The Navajo Reservation in Az is the largest in USA. |
| Taos | an acient pueblo belonging to a Taos speakng Native American tribe of Pueblo people. Still inhabited, it is apperaxently 1000 years old and lies about 1 mile north of the modern city of Taos, New Mexico |
| acoma | Known as sky city is a native American pueblo built on top of a 367-foot sandstone mesa in New Mexico. It is one of the oldest continuassly inhabited communities within the USA.Known for distinctave orange black and white pottery. |
| Santa Clora | The pueblo is on the Rio Grande, between Ohkay Owingh to the north and Sa Iidefonso Pueblo to tnhe south. sANTA Clara Pueblo is famus for producing hand-crafted pottery, specifically blackware and redware with deep engravings. |
| Kiva | a square, abouve-ground room used by modern day Hopi for religious and spiritual ceremonies. A subterranean room- usalloy round, genererall believed to have beem used by Anasazi men for reliogus and seramante pupose. |
| foot drums | rectangular hardwood boards of differnt thickness or streched anaimal hides laid across a rectangular kiva pit that make a deep resonating sound when danced upon. |
| pictographs | pictures-like symbols that represent an idea or tell a story |
| pottery | Pueblo culture is know for the many styles of pottery from across the plautue region. Each Pueblo have there own distinctive style. |
| Yucca plant | Member of the agave family with stiff green sword-like leaves and white flowers on a tall stack. Pueblo peoples used the roots and floere for food, tips for needels,fiber for weeving baskets,sandles adn rope , sap for medicine. |
| Kachinas | Benevolent spirtual interr ,ediaares between ceretin southwestern peoples adn the gods. Kachiinas bring good health, fertility , rain, abundance and other belssings. Dolls or images or the supernauterl beings. |
| weaving | Pueblo peoples wove decorations baskets and sandels from the fibers of the yuccaplant. They wove colorful,intricate blankest from sheep's wool. Dyed with nautrel plant and rock materials. |
| plateau | is an elevated area of land with a flat top and sides that are usally steep cliffs. It takes its name from its characteristics table-top shape. |
| Mouunment Valley | Is a region of the Colordado Plateau characterized by cluster of was sandstone, buttes,the larget reaching 1,000 ft abouve the vally floor |
| cliff dwellers | Native Americans of the Anazi culture who were builders of hte ancient cliff dwellings found in the canyons,under cliff overhangs and on the mesas of the U.S Southwest. |
| Molezuma Castle | Well-perserced cliff-dwellings. They were built and used by thr Precolumbian Sinagua people,northern cousins of the Hohokam, around 700 AD. sEVERA, Hopi clans trace thier roots to imigrants from the Montezuma Castke/Beaver Creek area. |
| hogan | the primary tradtional round home of the Pueblo people; made of wooden poles covered with layer of mud. Door faces east to greet the sun. |
| wickip | a tempory domed room dwelling, usaully constructed of branches and reeds used by certain Southwest Native American tribes to provide shade and venntilation. |
| maize | early form of corn. |
| flint | a hard, sedimentary crystalline form of the mineral quartz;can be flaked with harder stone to make arrowheads, spearapoints,etc. |
| drought | an extened period of the mouths or years when a region notes a defucuency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region receuves consistently below averge precipatation. |
| conquistadors | Spanish soldiers who conquerd Mexico and the ,erican Southwest and established a network of settelment forced indians to covert to Christianity. |
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