History of the United States I / Unit 1 USH1 0013 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Pueblo Peoples
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The idea
Pueblo is Spanish for town, named for permanent stone-and-mud buildings of multiple storeys. The Mogollon, Hohokam and Anasazi were its three groups.
In practice
Hohokam irrigation canals making desert agriculture possible, and by thirteen hundred the south-west's most populated settlements.
Where people slip
Anasazi means ancient enemy or ancient ones. Their cliff homes were reached by ladders that could be pulled up.
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