首页
登录
职称英语
Mesa Verde is the center of the prehistoric Anasazi culture. It is located in
Mesa Verde is the center of the prehistoric Anasazi culture. It is located in
游客
2025-01-03
31
管理
问题
Mesa Verde is the center of the prehistoric Anasazi culture. It is located in the high plateau lands near Four Corners, where Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona come together. This high ground is majestic but not forbidding. The climate is dry, but tiny streams trickle at the bottom of deeply cut canyons, where seeps and springs provided water for the Anasazi to irrigate their crops. Rich red soil provided fertile ground for their crops of corn, beans, squash, tobacco, and cotton. The Anasazi domesticated the wild turkey and hunted deer, rabbits, and mountain sheep.
For a thousand years the Anasazi lived around Mesa Verde. Although the Anasazi are not related to the Navajos, no one knows what these Indians called themselves, and so they are commonly referred to by their Navajo name, Anasazi, which means "ancient ones" in the Navajo language.
Around 550 A. D. , early Anasazi--then a nomadic people archaeologists call the Basketmakers—began constructing permanent homes on mesa tops. In the next 300 years, the Anasazi made rapid technological advancements, including the refinement of not only basket-making but also pottery-making and weaving. This phase of development is referred to as the Early Pueblo Culture.
By the Great Pueblo Period (1100 -1300 A. D. ), the Anasazi population swelled to over 5,000 and the architecturally ambitious cliff dwellings came into being. The Anasazi moved from the mesa tops onto ledges on the steep canyon walls, creating two-and three-story dwellings. They used sandstone blocks and mud mortar. There were no doors on the first floor and people used ladders to reach the first roof. All the villages had underground chambers called kivas. Men held tribal councils there and also used them for secret religious ceremonies and clan meetings. Winding paths, ladders, and steps cut into the stone led from the valleys below to the ledges on which the villages stood. The largest settlement contained 217 rooms. One might surmise that these dwellings were built for protection, but the Anasazi had no known enemies and there is no sign of conflict.
But a bigger mystery is why the Anasazi occupied these structures such a short time. By 1500, Mesa Verde was deserted. It is conjectured that the Anasazi abandoned their settlements because of drought, overpopulation, crop failure, or some combination of these. They probably moved southward and were incorporated into the pueblo villages that the Spanish explorers encountered two hundred years later. Their descendants still live in the Southwest. [br] According to the passage, the LEAST likely reason that the Anasazi abandoned Mesa Verde was______.
选项
A、drought
B、overpopulation
C、war
D、crop failure
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:http://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3896715.html
相关试题推荐
InBritaintherealcenterofpoliticallifeisin______.A、theQueenB、theHous
MesaVerdeisthecenteroftheprehistoricAnasaziculture.Itislocatedin
MesaVerdeisthecenteroftheprehistoricAnasaziculture.Itislocatedin
WhereisLakeLouiselocated?A、InthenorthernpartofCanada.B、OntheCanadian
TheVirginIslandsarelocated______.A、intheGulfofMexicoB、inthePacificO
Sciencehaslonghadanuneasyrelationshipwithotheraspectsofculture.Th
Sciencehaslonghadanuneasyrelationshipwithotheraspectsofculture.Th
Sciencehaslonghadanuneasyrelationshipwithotheraspectsofculture.Th
TheUnitedKingdomislocatedinA、northernEurope.B、westernEurope.C、northwest
Canadaisoftendescribedasahuge______centeredontheHudsonandJamesBay.
随机试题
[img]ct_epem_epelisv_00271(20097)[/img][br][originaltext]Ilikeeatingvegeta
Recentresearchfromanimalbehavioristssuggeststhat"asthecrowflies"s
Subwaysareundergroundtrains,whichusuallyoperate24hoursaday.Theya
Whodon’ttakepartinthestrike?[br][originaltext]Thousandsofcivilse
制订营养改善项目计划的要求应具有有针对性,易于确定目标,低经费开支,易于评价。(
骨折长期卧床患者,为预防压疮,护理上应采取哪些措施()A.保持皮肤清洁干燥 B
2012年,全国国内旅游人数29.57亿人次,比上年增长12.0%。其中,城镇居
心理学的研究原则包括( )A.客观性 B.逻辑性 C.系统性 D.具体性
小王去某期货公司开户进行期货交易,公司向小王讲解了期货交易的过程和期货交易的风险
下列关于车辆购置税的政策表述,错误的是()。A.依照法律规定应当予以免税的国际
最新回复
(
0
)