High Middle Ages · North America · Culture
1000
Chaco Canyon great houses rise
1000
On the windswept New Mexican plateau, Ancestral Puebloans aligned multi-story sandstone buildings to the solstice sun and carved roads running straight for miles over broken mesa country. Pueblo Bonito's growing D-shape would eventually enclose seven hundred rooms under a single sweeping roof. Turquoise from distant mines and macaw feathers from Mesoamerica arrived along trade routes that stretched across the arid Southwest.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.