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ARCH History Exam 1 (Chaco Canyon)
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Architecture
Undergraduate 3
10/20/2011

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Chaco canyon is what civilization
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Puebloan Civilization
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Theory behind Pueblo Bonito..
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Ceremony Site for celestial cycles
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cosmological effected construction..
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walls of complex are exactly N, W, E, S
(shadow / light)
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people stopped using the area over time...
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- cultural change
- people dispersed, burned kivas, sealed openings
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Ancestral Puebloan people lived from.. ?
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200-1300 CE
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they lived below, and above ground:
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Pit houses (below) and Pueblo(above)
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The acoma pueblo: time?
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1200 CE to present day
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Pueblo Bonita: building characteristcs?
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37 kivas ( 7 grand)
800 rooms
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Fajada Bluff fact:
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location of sun dagger site
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Teothuacan is what?
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a city of unknow people (200,000)
believed to be a religios center
no written language
name means: "the place of the gods"
Alighned with magnetic north.
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what civilization built Machu Picchu?
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Inca
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Teotihuacan: time?
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100 BCE - 750 CE
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mayan empire timeline...
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300 BCE - 1530 CE
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Meso-South american cultures we studied are:
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1. Mayan
2. Inca
3. The Teotihuacan
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