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The longest river in New Mexico
What is the RIO GRANDE?
100
A long period without rainfall
What is a DROUGHT?
100
New Mexico's greatest shortcoming
What is NOT ENOUGH WATER?
100
The name of the person that the Zuni Pueblo called "Black Mexican"
Who is ESTEVAN?
100
Where Columbus believed he had arrived when he landed in the Americas
What is INDIA?
200
The reason the Catholic church was so interested in the Native population
What is to SAVE THEIR SOULS?
200
Payment of tax by Indians
What is TRIBUTE?
200
The religious room located near the center of each group of houses
What is a KIVA?
200
Where the earliest New Mexicans likely came from
What is ASIA and SIBERIA?
200
The first 2 groups of people that lived in New Mexico
What are CLOVIS and FOLSOM?
300
Two groups who came to New Mexico and learned farming from the Pueblos
Who are the NAVAJO and the APACHE?
300
The role women played in the Anasazi culture
What is PROPERTY OWNERS?
300
Divides the flow of rivers on the continent
What is the CONTINENTAL DIVIDE?
300
The term for people who settle in one place and live in permanent houses
What is SEDENTARY?
300
The term that describes the society where ancestry is traced through the female
What is MATRILINEAL SOCIETY?
400
THREE reasons people left the Chaco Region around 1090 A.D.
What are DROUGHT, FOOD SOURCE TOO FAR AWAY, and FACING STARVATION?
400
The geographic region that most New Mexicans live in
What is BASIN and RANGE?
400
The people who moved into New Mexico after the big game and big game hunters were gone
Who are DESERT CULTURE I?
400
THREE major cultures that grew out of the Desert Culture
What are HOHOKAM, MOGOLLON, and ANASAZI?
400
The term for people who moved where their source of food took them
What is NOMADIC?
500
Archaeologists use THESE to tell the difference between the big game hunters
What are SPEAR POINTS?
500
THREE descriptions of an Anasazi house
What is an APARTMENT STYLE BUILDING, BUILT IN A U OR L SHAPE ROW, and BELOW GROUND IN PITS?
500
THREE things that helped the Spanish conquer the Indians
What is SMALLPOX, CANNONS, and HORSES?
500
THREE reasons that big game and the big game hunters disappeared from New Mexico
What is LACK OF FOOD, DISEASE, and WEATHER CHANGE?
500
The Viceroy of New Spain who sent Fray Marcos to look for the 7 cities of gold
Who is MENDOZA?