USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Adobe had been in use by indigenous peoples of the Americas in the Southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, and the Andes for several thousand years. Puebloan peoples built their adobe structures with handsful or basketsful of adobe, until the Spanish introduced them to making bricks.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. Gaps between the bricks were filled with more mud to block the wind, rain, and to keep out bugs and other unwanted pests.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Pueblo were cliff dwellers. They built homes of adobe brick on cliffs and on mesas in the southwest.

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: -Meaning “mud brick” in Spanish, adobe homes are a one-of-a-kind home style largely found across the southwestern United States. They are particularly suited to the dry and harsh climates of states like New Mexico and often associated with the historical architecture of this region.