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First becoming apparent as a specific group less than 2,000 years ago, the Anasazi have thrived to become the largest and best well known of all prehistoric southwestern cultures. (Brody, 33) Spoke at least six impossible to understand languages. (Brody, 33) There are thousands of Anasazi archaeological sites ranging from campsites for a single person for single night, to adobe communities with hundreds of rooms that were steadily occupied for centuries. (Brody, 33) The Anasazi historical record begins in the sixteenth century when the Hispanic conquistadors of Mexico first made contact with them. (Brody, 34) We are not sure what they called themselves, or if they even considered themselves a single civilization.(Brody, 33) Their name comes …show more content…

(Brody, 33) We now give them a name that is a successful way of life that was shared by many different people. (Brody, 33) The Hispanic explorers called the Anasazi people Pueblos, meaning town dwellers. (Brody, 34) Lived in modern day New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah and Colorado. (Brody, 13) Dominated 40.000 square miles of the Four Corner region. (Stuart, 7) Was an area nearly the size of Scotland - and remarkably larger than any one European principal city of the …show more content…

(Brody, 47) Large ritual structures which were the focus of community life. (Brody, 47) Many were defensive in character and built on top of high cliffs with limited opening to the outside. They were defended by members of war societies. (Brody, 47) The Chacoan Great Kivas could hold hundreds of people, and those built in isolation were usually accessible to several small villages. (Brody, 115) eighteen Great Kivas located within about eight miles of each other at Chaco Canyon.

(Brody, 113) By the 1530's the Spanish had become aware of an isolated group of farmers who were civilized by their reckoning. (Brody, 34) From 1540 to 1542 a large expedition, under the leadership of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, was licensed by the Spanish government to explore the Anasazi territory. (Brody, 34) Since then, the Anasazi have been visited officially and unofficially by several smaller Spanish forces. (Brody, 34) Franciscan missionaries came also to convert the Indians to Catholicism, they came and built mission churches at a number of Pueblos during the first half of the seventeenth

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