USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Pueblo farmed the land and lived in villages made of ____ houses.
A
adobe clay
B
saplings
C
cedar
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Pueblo people built elaborate apartment-like buildings out of adobe, which is clay mixed with water and straw and wood and stones. The buildings had flat roofs, with ladders to connect the upper levels to the lower ones. The homes allowed families and clans to live close together.

Detailed explanation-2: -Clay mixed with water and small pieces of plant material. In pueblos, adobe is usually used to plaster walls, roofs, and sometimes floors. When adobe dries, it forms a hard surface that helps keep the inside of the house warm and dry. These photographs show two chunks of adobe from ancient Pueblo houses.

Detailed explanation-3: -What they did have was dirt, rock, and straw and, with these materials, they made their adobe houses in communities called pueblos. Adobe is mud and straw mixed together and dried to make a strong brick-like material. Pueblo peoples stacked these bricks to make the walls of the house.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Pueblo Indians have lived in this fascinating complex of multistoried adobe homes and ceremonial structures since they were built in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

Detailed explanation-5: -While adobe-style homes tend to use adobe brick materials-earth, water, and grass or straw-Pueblo Revival homes appropriate the original construction style. “The more modern houses are actually timber-frame structures finished on the outside with stucco to make them look like adobe, ” says Jojola.

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