Why did the Pueblo build their homes without doors or windows? They want to live in balance and harmony. The Navajo believe in hozho, or walking beauty.

The correct answer is B: Homes were built into caves and cracks in cliff walls. The Ancestral Pueblo was an ancient Native American culture that covered the contemporary geographical regions of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado in the United States.

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The Ancient Pueblo people were very good farmers despite the harsh and arid climate. They ate mainly corn, beans, and squash. They knew how to dry their food and could store it for years. Women ground the dried corn into flour, which they made into paper-thin cakes.

Pueblo people lived in adobe houses known as pueblos, which are multi-story house complexes made of adobe (clay and straw baked into hard bricks) and stone. Each adobe unit was home to one family, like a modern apartment. Pueblo people used ladders to reach the upstairs apartments.

Although Pueblo people, as a group, no longer live in the Mesa Verde region, their presence is still felt through the remarkable material legacy their ancestors left behind. Today, however, more than 60,000 Pueblo people live in 32 Pueblo communities in New Mexico and Arizona and one pueblo in Texas.

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.

The mesa-top settlement is known worldwide for its unique art and rich culture. A federally recognized Native American Tribe, Acoma Pueblo has a land base covering 431,664 acres and is home to over 5000 tribal members with more than 250 dwellings, none of which have electricity, sewer, or water.

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The Acoma Massacre refers to the punitive expedition by Spanish conquistadors at Acoma Pueblo in January 1599 that resulted in the deaths of around 500 Acoma men killed in a three-day battle, along with 300 women and children.

One of the first things Europeans did upon their arrival to the Americas was to dig for gold. The Conquistadores would set quotas of how much gold each Indian had to bring and if these were not met their hands would be cut off in order to “teach” the rest a lesson.

What happened at Acoma? the command of Juan de Oñate. The Spanish succeeded in destroying the town and killing or enslaving its inhabitants. 80 surviving warriors had one of their feet chopped off and were enslaved.

What event triggered the resistance of the Ácoma natives? Oñate and his men publicly insulted the faith of the natives, thereby insulting their ancestors. Oñate had been at war with neighboring tribes, and they sent warnings to Ácoma. Oñate’s men used force in an attempt to take food and provisions from the natives.

The Spanish priests tried to convert the Pueblo peoples to Christianity. They pressured the Pueblo Indians by hanging, whipping, or putting them in prison. Most Pueblo people did not want to be Christians. They wanted to worship in their own traditions.

The uprising, also known as Popé’s Rebellion, killed over 400 Spaniards and drove the remaining 2,000 Spanish settlers south toward Mexico. Participants in the rebellion also destroyed many mission churches in an effort to diminish Catholic physical presence on Pueblo land.

the causes of the Pueblo Revolt was they arrested the Pueblo holy men and some of them are put to death. as revenge, Pope (a Pueblo man), leads a revolt against the Spanish. the effects were they killed 400 Spaniards all together and 35 priests. the Spanish are forced to leave the area./span>

The main reason that the Pueblo Revolt was successful was that Popé was able to launch a highly-coordinated assault on the Spanish by a large group spread over a large geographic area. The Pueblos were able to drive the Spanish from the area and gain control, even if it was only for a few years./span>

The Pueblos rejected all symbols of European culture. Natives rebuilt their places of worship. They married Indian women, relying on them as guides, traders, and interpreters. They prided themselves on their “humane” policy with local Indians, and forged military, commercial, and diplomatic alliances with them.

What were the major patterns of Native American life in North America before Europeans arrived? engaged in hunting and gathering, foundation of social structure-technology, introduction of trade and market place-economy.

The Pueblo peoples live in the southern desert regions. Traditionally, the Pueblo people were labeled by the Spanish as pueblo (stone masonry town dwellers) in contrast to rancheria (brush/mud camp dwellers). However, the Pueblo people are culturally diverse, but they all farm corn, beans and squash.

Why did the Revolt take place? For more than eighty years, Pueblo peoples had endured Spanish persecution of their religious practices, Spanish demands for corn and labor, and Spanish abuses of their women. The Spaniards retreated to El Paso. Diego de Vargas reconquered New Mexico for the Spanish beginning in 1692.

How did Spain justify enslaving Native Americans? The Spanish believed that enslavement could liberate Native Americans from their backwardness and savagery and introduce them to Christian civilization. According to Bartolomé de Las Casas: more peaceful European-Indian relations than existed in New Spain.

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 occurred in the Pueblo Region, which is present day New Mexico. The spanish came in and tried to force the people to convert to christianity. They arrest the pueblo holy men and some of them are put to death.

Most of the native people of Florida died of disease brought by settlers. What was the main reason why the Spanish settlers established a colony in New Mexico rather than remaining in Florida? Who implemented the Headright system? The Spanish had attempted to keep the Pueblos from practicing their native religion.

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What drew the first American settlers to the New Mexico territory? The trade with New Mexico increased so Americans began settling in the area. What made the Santa Fe Trail a popular and efficient route? The trail crossed the prairies to the Arkansas River and followed the river west toward the Rocky Mountains.