What major insights have you gained about Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan) adaptations to desert environments and their connections to Mesoamerican societies to the south?

1. What major insights have you gained about Anasazi (Ancestral Puebloan) adaptations to desert environments and their connections to Mesoamerican societies to the south? What most surprised you in reading Graig Childs’ book, House of Rain?

2. What three major insights about indigenous, African, and colonial Latin American history did you gain from reading Mann’s book, 1493? How was Latin America both simultaneously created and destroyed after 1492?

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