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    The Anasazi Indians

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    It was during the time period that Christ was born that the Anasazi Indians appeared in the Four Corners area which is the area where the boundaries of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado meet. For the over a thousand years the Anasazi thrived and built their homes into the side of cliffs. These cliff dwellings could only be reached by climbing and made for a great defense system against enemies; some dwellings reached five stories in height and contained hundreds of rooms. Many of the elaborate

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    Anasazi Essay

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    The Anasazi The Anasazi or the ancient ones were a very interesting and unknown culture to many people. The Anasazi were the very the beginning. The beginning of what you may ask. The Anasazi were the beginning of a whole culture that still lives on today.The Anasazi culture was an advanced culture . The Anasazi also had an incredible in structures and area the Anasazi lived in. The Anasazi lifestyles was very different then you would think. Were the Anasazi polytheism or monotheism is a

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    Anasazi Disappearance

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    The History and the Disappearance of the Anasazi Introduction: My topic is the history and the disappearance of the Anasazi. I chose this topic because I am from Colorado and we visited Mesa Verde on school trips. I find the Anasazi culture interesting and doing research on them seemed like it would be enjoyable. ` The Anasazi populated the four corners area of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. They became independent somewhere between 200 and 500 A.D. and disappeared 1100 years later leaving

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    Anasazi Tribe

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    Grade Native American Tribe Report My Native American Tribe are called The Anasazi. The name of their culture group is Ancient Pueblo People or Ancestral Puebloans. The Anasazi lived in the Four Corners area of the Southwest United States, in what is now northern Arizona, southern Utah, southwestern Colorado, and northwestern New Mexico. They farmed beans, squash and corn, ate wild plants and hunted mice and rabbits. The Anasazi also hunted deer and bighorn sheep less frequently.

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    Anasazi Disappearance

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    There was once a Native American clan that widely cohabitated in the Southwestern part of America. This clan would soon come to be recognized as the Anasazi or, the “Ancient One’s”, by researchers who studied in depth their culture and geographical movements. Artifacts and other findings have expressed to archaeologists that their lifestyle was not only very well established but also efficient. They had adapted methods of hunting and gathering, they were knowledgeable farmers who had actually developed

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    Anasazi Tribe

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    The Anasazi The Anasazi people inhabited an area called the Four Corners of Southwest America. The Four Corners area consisted of northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado.The Anasazi people are the ancient ancestors of the modern Pueblo people that still inhabit Southwest America. The Anasazi people are believed to have first emerged around 1200 BC however it appears that they had completely abandoned this area by 1300 AD. Many theories surrounding

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    Anasazi Essay

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    Anasazi About 1400 years ago, long before any European exploration of the New World, a group of Indians living in the Four Corners region chose Mesa Verde for their home. For over 700 years their descendants lived and flourished here, eventually building elaborate stone cities in the sheltered recesses of the canyon walls. Then in the late 1200’s, within the span of one or two generations, they abandoned their homes and moved away. Crossing an imaginary boundary into the region

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    Anasazi Culture Essay

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    "Hisatsinom" by their Hopi descendants, the people are probably better known as "Anasazi," the Navajo name said to mean "ancient enemies." Other, more traditional, Native

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    The Anasazi were a Native American people who were the ancestors of another group called the Pueblos. The Anasazi are a group that first started in 300 A.D. to 1500. They stayed in what today called is the four corners. ( Where the states Utah, Colorado, , Arizona, and New Mexico meet). The name Anasazi is not used for often by the descendants . It is a Navajo word that is translated to “ ancestors of our enemies”. Anasazi society began as scattered settlements of farmers living in a small town

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    Why The Anasazi Lived

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    group of people called the Anasazi or “the ancient ones”. They began to build a series of great housing complexes and by the middle of the 12-century the Anasazi disappeared and no one knows why. These early Anasazi were nomadic hunters-gatherers ranging over great territories then began to settle in communities such as the Chaco Canyon which is now in New Mexico. Four hundred years later Spanish settlers stumbled upon these cities and called it Pueblo Bonito. The Anasazi settled in the states of

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