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When Spain came from Europe and took over the Pueblos, they converted them to their religion of Christianity. They built churches all around their villages and made them change religions. In the end, 60,000 Pueblo Indians were converted to the Christian religion

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Pueblos are Indian peoples from the southwest
Ancestors - Anasazi settled in : modern day Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and northern Mexico
The Pueblo people lived in these locations until the Spaniards arrived in 1540

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Their name Pueblos was given by to them by the Spanish. The world "pueblo" means small town, or village in Spanish. They were given this name because they were found in small towns or villages.

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Some native people resisted the conversion and practiced their own beliefs
This created syncretism which is according to Khan Academy, "the amalgamation of the distinct religious cultures of the Pueblos and the Spanish."

Most of the pueblos were upset because they had to discard their previous beliefs and traditions

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The Pueblo revolt of 1680 was organized by Ohkay Owingeh otherwise know as San Juan Pueblo. He was later killed because of his autocratic behavior.

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The Pueblos rebelled against the Spanish religious persecution, violence and drought
The goal : to regain their, land/home, to have the ability to practice their own religion
To regain the culture and community they had before the Spanish interference.

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The Indians created above ground homes out of stone and adobe blocks
Because their building were made on flat top hills - they were nicknamed "Cliff Dwellers"

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In the year 700 AD the pueblos went through an agricultural revolution, where they went from their old primitive lifestyles to agricultural and sedentary life.

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- Killed 400 Spaniards
- Occurred in the south part of Mexico
- Drove out the remaining 2,000 Spanish settlers
- Pueblo historian Joe S. Sando referred to the uprising as, "the first American Revolution"

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Men often focused on providing for the household, while the woman often focused on agriculture

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Because of their convenient location near the Rio Grande(translated means, big river), they used it as a water source for themselves and their crops.

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Whiteley, Peter M. "North American Indians: Indians of the Southwest." Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Lindsay Jones, 2nd ed., vol. 10, Macmillan Reference USA, 2005, pp. 6720-6730. World History in Context,

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Their religion often included a shaman, who directed ceremonies around their gods of nature. Their religion also included human sacrifices to please their gods.

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Paszter, Suzanne B. "Pueblo Indians." Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, edited by Jay Kinsbruner and Erick D. Langer, 2nd ed., vol. 5, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008, p. 404. World History in Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3078904562/WHIC?u=morr75584&sid=WHIC&xid=aaeb0038. Accessed 18 Sept. 2018.

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LIEBMANN, MATTHEW, ROBERT PREUCEL, and JOSEPH AGUILAR. "The Pueblo World Transformed: Alliances, Factionalism, and Animosities in the Northern Rio Grande, 1680–1700." In New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest, edited by Douglass John G. and Graves William M., 143-56. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1mmftg6.12.

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Editors of Khan Academy, "Pueblo Uprising of 1680" Khan Academy, https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/precontact-and-early-colonial-era/spanish-colonization/a/pueblo-uprising-of-1680 Accessed September 19, 2018

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Bell, A. W. "On the Native Races of New Mexico." The Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1869-1870) 1, no. 3 (1869): 222-74. doi:10.2307/3014407.