Ancestral Puebloans 3.0

The Ancestral Puebloans had a golden age from about 900 CE to 1100 CE, when their culture ...

• collapsed into scattered bands who regressed to a stone age lifestyle

• produced elaborate entertainments like the theater

• built great cities and cliff dwellings in the desert of the Colorado Plateau

• conquered all of their neighbors and took their wealth

Ancestral Puebloans built ​ (a)   in alcoves along canyons.

• cliff dwellings
• wooden defenses
• huge dams and reservoirs
• art galleries

The most famous artifacts we have found that the Ancestral Puebloans produced were ...

• rubber balls for the mesoamerican ball game

• huge wooden apartment buildings

• lrge cleared fields for agriculture

• fine decorated pottery

After several centuries of successful civilization, ​ (a)   forced the Ancestral Puebloans to leave their cities and migrate south and east

• severe drought
• implacable enemies
• severe flooding
• European diseases

Ancestral Puebloans migrate to ​ (a)   where they found a moister climate.

• The Rio Grande River valley
• the Mojave Desert
• California
• The Guatemalan rainforest

The Ancestral Puebloans were able to produce abundant food in the desert because ...

• they grew huge plantations with hundreds of acres in crops

• their shamans had magic that could control the weather

• they could make plants grow without water

• they used pumice mulch, waffle gardens and other advanced gardening techniques