USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Corn, beans, and squash were the most important crops. The Ancestral Pueblo people depended on agriculture to sustain them in their more sedentary lifestyle. Corn, beans, and squash were the most important crop items.

Detailed explanation-2: -Evolving from a hunter-gathering lifestyle, the Pueblo people were known as peaceful farmers, herdsmen, basketmakers, and potters. The Pueblo American Indians expanded into an agricultural society-growing maize, pumpkins, seeds, tobacco, corn, beans, and squash while designing complex water irrigation systems.

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: -Ancestral Puebloan refers to the maize agriculturalists who lived across the northern Southwest from the beginnings of cultivation until the coming of the Spanish explorers in A.D. 1540.

Detailed explanation-5: -Pueblo Indian silversmithing, weaving, sculpture, and easel painting have been introduced or adapted in many ways through Hispanic and Anglo influences, but pottery traditions are prehistoric. Hundreds of Pueblos were producing and trading pottery when the Spanish first arrived in the area.