Ancestral Puebloans 1.0

Around the year 500 CE, two critical technologies began to be used by the Ancestral Puebloans:

• iron smelting and chain mail

• wheeled wagons and horses

• ceramic pottery and the bow & arrow

• heavy lifting cranes and building ramps

The region the Ancestral Pueblo civilization arose in is ...

• the Rocky Mountains

• the Sonoran Desert

• The Rio Grande Valley

• the Colorado plateau

The high desert of the Colorado Plateau has water running in streams when lower elevations are dry because ...

• the Plateau is higher and closer to the source of the streams- the snow melting in the mountains

• The Plateau is a basin, and its hollow shape keeps water from flowing away

• Streams on the Plateau run in circles, one to another, so the streams never leave

• By the time streams leave the Plateau, all the water has been used by the Ancstral Puebloans

Mesa Verde is one location the Ancestral Puebloans inhabited. They built ​​ (a)   there.​

• Cliff palaces
• walled fortresses
• tall watchtowers on the mesa top
• log buildings with wooden palisades

The Ancestral Puebloans followed an animistic religion, with spirit inhabiting all of the natural world. The leader who communicates with the spirit world is ...

• Minister

• War Chief

• Shaman

• Consiglieri

 Like all the other Native American societies we’ve studied, the Ancestral Puebloans used a technique of growing crops together:

• The Three Musketeers

• The Three Sisters

• The Three Amigos

• The Three Important Crops