People


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Major influences include Spanish, Mexican, and Pueblo Indians.

Three significant cultures emerged in the region around 300 B.C,cultures were the original ones that branched off into others over time. All three were based on a farming society augmented by hunting and gathering.
 * Anasazi
 * Hohokam
 * Mogollon

The **Anasazi**, who erected cliff houses in northern Arizona and New Mexico, Utah and Colorado; the **Hohokam,** part of the Pueblo tribe, who dug complex irrigation systems in central Arizona; and the **Mogollon**, who hunted and farmed along the rivers of western New Mexico and eastern Arizona.

Villagers were descended mainly from the **Anasazi**. They were dubbed Pueblo (village) by the Spanish. The Pueblo subsisted by farming. They erected imposing terraced houses of //adobe// (dried clay), which sometimes rose to five stories.

The Spanish arrived around 1600 A.D. They introduced cattle to the region around this time.

Today, people in this region are descended from these all these cultures, all mixed together. However, the co-existence of all these different cultures at the time they first meshed together lead to greediness, ruthlessness, and marginalizing. This was due to the little resources that were available to the area.