PAIREDREADTheAnasaziWereAstronomersExpositoryTextTheAnasaziBYKENBENNSTRATEGIES&SKILLSAPhotographyCredit:MarkKarrass/CORBIS**Thetotalwordcountisbasedonwordsintherunningtextandheadingsonly.Numeralsandwordsincaptions,labels,diagrams,charts,andsidebarsarenotincluded.WordCount:1,651**ComprehensionStrategy:SummarizeSkill:Author’sPointofViewVocabularyStrategySentenceCluesVocabularyarchaeologists,era,fragments,historians,intact,preserved,reconstruct,remnantsELLVocabularydescendants,merged,migratedContentStandardsSocialStudiesHistoryCopyright©TheMcGraw-HillCompanies,Inc.Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproducedordistributedinanyformorbyanymeans,orstoredinadatabaseorretrievalsystem,withoutthepriorwrittenconsentofTheMcGraw-HillCompanies,Inc.,including,butnotlimitedto,networkstorageortransmission,orbroadcastfordistancelearning.Sendallinquiriesto:McGraw-HillEducationTwoPennPlazaNewYork,NewYork10121ISBN:978-0-02-119108-6MHID:0-02-119108-5PrintedintheUnitedStates.123456789DOC151413121110PAIREDREADIntroduction..................................2Chapter1WhoWeretheAnasaziPeople?...............4Chapter2HowDidTheyLive?...........................8Chapter3WhereDidtheAnasaziGo?..................12Conclusion...................................16RespondtoReading.........................18TheAnasaziWereAstronomers.....19Glossary.....................................22Index........................................23FocusonSocialStudies......................24EssentialQuestionHowdoweexplainwhathappenedinthepast?TheAnasaziBYKENBENNRoyalty-Free/CORBISIn1889,tworancherswerelookingforstraycattlewhentheysawanamazingsight.Theyaccidentallydiscoveredanancientcityinthecliffs.ThesecliffdwellingswereremnantsoftheancientAnasazicivilization.TheAnasazipeoplehaddisappearedfromtheareaabout600yearsearlier.IntroductionTheAnasazibuiltandlivedinlargecommunitieslikethesecliffdwellingsinMesaVerdeNationalPark,Colorado.cliffdwelling2TheAnasaziwereamazingbuilders.Theybuilthousesintocliffsanddwellingsth...