FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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brick called adobe
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twigs and grasses
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rabbit skins
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logs from large trees
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Detailed explanation-1: -Adobe is made primarily out of clay, soil, small pebbles and rocks, straw, grass, and sticks.
Detailed explanation-2: -An “adobe” or “adobe brick” is a dried-mud brick made of earth, water and usually some kind of organic binding material like straw or grass.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-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: -American Indians started building houses with adobe in the 1400s. Spanish elements were added when the Spanish conquered the region in the 1600s. Northern Europeans took over later.