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    Posted: 13-Feb-2007 at 14:46
how where the Anazasi indians where destroyed I know that there was a spanish invasion but they beat them off what happened after thatLamp
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Anazasi Indians were not destroyed by the Spaniards. As far as I know they suffered an environmental crisis and migrated from there. Anazasi just mean "the old ones" in the languages of their descendent peoples.
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Originally posted by pinguin

Anazasi Indians were not destroyed by the Spaniards. As far as I know they suffered an environmental crisis and migrated from there. Anazasi just mean "the old ones" in the languages of their descendent peoples.
 
what kind of envorimental crisis
 
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Environmental crisis is sth frequent,in my opinion, in the Pro-Colombian history of America.For example ,El Mirador declined due to the fact that the resources were gradually diminshed to a great degree.The Nazca of Peru were hitten by a tremendous weather crisis,sth near to El Ninio,which resulted to their decline.They ,in fact,burried their holy city because they thought that the Gods did not listen to them anymore.The Inkas knew a similar problem during the 14th-16th centuries.
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Actually, in the Americas is one of the places where it is easier to observe the rise and decay of civilizations because problems in the environment.

The Anazasi produced a serious deforestation in theirs habitat because of cooking but mainly because the use of logs in architecture.
 
 


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Originally posted by pinguin

Anazasi Indians were not destroyed by the Spaniards. As far as I know they suffered an environmental crisis and migrated from there. Anazasi just mean "the old ones" in the languages of their descendent peoples.
 what kind of envorimental crisis
 
 
As pinguin mentioned, many places in the Americas have very marginal envornments.  The American South West is a very marginal environment for large populations.
 
With the Anasazi, population growth duruing the "good times" grew to the point where it could no longer be sustained by hunting / subsistance agriculture.    The Anasazi then began large scale,  irrigation based agriculture to feed themselves.
 
Then..... a changing climate produced less rainfall causing crops to fail.  Soil erosion from poor farming practices evidently also decreased crop yields.  This  lead to a total collapse of the civilization and a population crash.  The cities were abandoned and isolated groups probably reverted back to a hunter gatherer level of existance. 
 
 
 
 
  


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the same as at the easter islands
 
aha thats why thank you for sharing you knowledge
 
and pinguin they used charcoal for cooking
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The Anasazi Indians as we call them were gone long before the arrival of the Spanish. The term means the ancient ones and really no one knows fully what happened to them. Some believe that they are related to the Hopi and Pueblo Indians of today. I have been down to Arizona and New Mexico and saw their ruins, quite interesting. Some believe it was a combination of climate change and enviromental problems caused by them. I have had Anasazi beans which were developed by these people and it demonstrates the sophisticated level in agriculture they had reached.
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Perhaps the big problem with the environment they had it was caused by the cutting of trees to build theirs apartment buildings. They use trees in large scale for that. A picture:
 
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more anasazi buildings. They were the only people in the Americas that developed apartment buildings like Romans did!
 
 
 
 
 
 
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