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]
Which tribe lived in shelters made of sun dried brick and clay?
A
Iroquois
B
Kwakiutl
C
Lakota
D
Pueblo
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -What is a pueblo? Pueblo is the Spanish word for “village” or “town.” In the Southwest, a pueblo is a settlement that has houses made of stone, adobe, and wood. The houses have flat roofs and can be one or more stories tall.

Detailed explanation-3: -Historians believe the Pueblo tribe descended from three cultures, “including the Mogollon, Hohokam, and Ancient Puebloans (Anasazi).” Representative of the Southwest American Indian culture, the Pueblo tribe settled in the Mesa Verde region at the Four Corners of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona.

Detailed explanation-4: -The most celebrated and recognized art form of New Mexico’s 19 Pueblo communities didn’t begin as an art form at all. Pottery was created by ancestral Puebloan people out of necessity and over many generations.

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