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Social Studies 2012
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anasazi(1) | Culture that existed from about 1200 B.C to 1300 AD in the four corners are of SW U.S. Best known for the ruins of their monumental cliff dwellings at places like Mesa Verde, which they abandoned at the end of the 13th century |
| pueblo culture | [Spanish for "town"] Indian village in the American Southwest. |
| Mesa Verde | [Spanish for "Green Plateau"] 1. National park in southwestern Colorado,site of many Anasazi cliff dwellings. 2. The Anasazi region around Mesa Verde.San Juan River region |
| Anasazi(2) | Navaho (more correctly, "Diné of "Dineh") word which, depending on pronuciation, means either "enemy ancestors" or "ancient people who are not us" |
| Chaco Canyon | Extensive Ancient Puebloan culture (circa 800 AD) in NW New Mexico; Known for massive stone buildings (Great houses) of multiple stories containing hundreds of rooms, extensive roads and water control systems. |
| Aztec Ruins | Anasazi village in New Mexico with largest reconstructed ceremonial Kiva. |
| Bandelier | National monument containing a number of ancestral pueblo homes, multistory dwellings, kivas (ceremonial structures), rock paintings and petroglyphs. Some of the dwellings were rock structures built on the canyon floor (AZ) |
| Tuzigoot | Ancient hilltop agricultural pueblo in AZ that consisted of 110 one, two and three-story structures. (1000-1400 AD) |
| Hopi | Believed to be descended from the ancient Puebloan cultures who constructed large apartment-house complexes in NE Arizona and NW New Mexico along the Mogollon Rim, from 1100-1300 AD, when they abandoned their large villages. |
| Zuni | Like the Hopi, descendants of the Anasazi. |
| Navajo | aka "Dene" people were hunter-gatherers until they adopted pueblo life. Known for raising sheep, blanket weaving, and pottery. The Navajo Reservation in AZ is the largest in USA. |
| Taos | an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos (Northern Tiwa) Speaking Native American tribe of Pueblo people. Still inhabited, it is approximately 1000 years old and lies about 1 mile (1.6 km) 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 mes in New Mexico. (1100 AD) it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities within the USA. Known for distinctive orange, white and black pottery. |
| Flint | |
| Drought | |
| Conquistadors | |
| Pueblo Revolt | In 1680, after years of Spanish religious persecution & brutality, New Mexico and Arizona pueblos coordinated in attack on the Spanish and drove back to Mexico. 12 years later, Captain General Diego de Vergas led a bloodless reconquest. |
| turquoise | |
| sand painting | The art of pouring colored sands, powered pigments from minerals crystals, and pigments from other natural resources onto a surface to make a fixed, or unfixed sand painting. Often temporary, ritual paintings prepared for religious or healing ceremonies |
| mano metate | |
| Taos Pueblo | |
| Mogollon | |
| Hohokam | |
| Colorado Plateau | |
| foot holds/ hand holds | |
| Nomadic | constantly moving; never settling in one place; following food supplies and moving with the seasons |
| Sedentary | |
| horticulture | |
| Pueblo diet | |
| Santa Clara | The pueblo is on the Rio Grande, between Ohkay Owingeh (formerly San Juan Pueblo) to the north and San Ildefonso Pueblo to the south. Santa Clara Pueblo is famous for producing hand-crafted pottery, specifically blackware and redware with deep engravings |
| Kiva (Great Kiva) | 1. A square, above-ground room used by modern day Hopi fore religious and spiritual ceremonies. 2. A subterranean room - usually round, generally believed to have been used by Anasazi men for religious and ceremonial purposes. |
| Foot Drums | rectangular hardware boars of different thickness or stretched animal hides laid across a rectangular kiva pit that make a deep resonating sound when danced upon |
| Pictographs | Pictures or picture-like symbols that represent an idea or tell a story. Pictographs can be found in the works of many ancient cultures on papyrus or wood, on cloth, on pottery and jewelry, painted on walls. |
| pottery | Pueblo culture is known for the many styles of pottery from across the Plateau region. Each pueblo has its own distinctive style. (See Acoma and Santa Clara) |
| Yucca Plant | Member of the agave family with stiff green sword-like leaves and white flowers on a tall stalk. Pueblo peoples used the roots & flowers for food, tips for needles, fibers for weaving baksets, sandals & rope, sap (aloe vera) for medicine |
| Kachinas | 1. Benevolent spiritual intermeiaries between certain Southwestern peoples and the gods. Kachinas bring good health, fertility, rain, abundance and other blessings. 2. (Modern days) Dolls or images of the supernatural beings. |
| Weaving | Pueblo peoples wove decorative baskets and sandals from the fibers of the yucca plant. They wove colorful, intricate blankets from sheep's wool. Dyed with natural plant and rock materials. |
| Mesa | |
| Monument Valley | |
| Cliff Dwellers | Native Americans of the Anasazi culture who were builders of the ancient cliff dwelling found in the canyons, under cliff overhangs and on the mesas of the U.S. Southwest. |
| Montezuma's Cstle | |
| Hogan | |
| Wikiup | |
| Maize | |
| Fremont Culture | |
| Marauders | |
| Apache | |
| Granary | |
| Kayenta | |
| Keresan | |
| Kokopelli | |
| Moqui Or Moki | |
| Petroglyph | |
| Pilon | |
| Pithouse | |
| Potsherd | |
| Pueblo Bonita | |
| Puebloan | |
| sipapu | |
| spindle whirl | |
| Teosinte | |
| Tree-Ring dating | |
| Stone Morta & Pestle | |
| Colorado River | |
| Rio Grande River | |
| Pueblo Culture Music |
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