Native American Societies Before European Contact

AP US History· difficulty 2/5

Before European contact, which Native American group developed elaborate cliff dwellings in the Southwest?

A
$Iroquois (Haudenosaunee Confederacy)$
B
$Sioux (Lakota/Dakota Plains tribes)$
C
$Algonquian (Eastern Woodlands peoples)$
D
$Pueblo (Anasazi/Ancestral Puebloan)$
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Explanation

The Pueblo peoples of the Southwest constructed multi-story stone and adobe dwellings, including the famous cliff complexes at Mesa Verde.

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