History of the United States I / Unit 1 USH1 0014 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Chaco Canyon
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The idea
Roads running about one hundred eighty miles connected smaller centres to Chaco Canyon, the administrative, religious and cultural centre of the Pueblo world by ten fifty CE.
In practice
A century later the cities abandoned, probably to drought.
Where people slip
Descendants live today as the Hopi and Zuni. These societies were already declining when Columbus arrived.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
Unlocks
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