Why The Anasazi Disappeared

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Introduction
The Anasazi were American Indians who disappeared around 1300 A.D. No one knows what happened to the Anasazi, just that they were once a well-developed civilization. The Anasazi grew and hunted for their own food, until one day, they were just gone. The Anasazi left everything behind: cooking pots, baskets, clothing, and food. Some say that they might have migrated to a different place because they were in the middle of the Great Drought which took place in the 13th century. Others have no doubt that either a great battle took place and they were all killed, or something supernatural happened. Journalists, scientists, and ancient astronaut theorists have different opinions of what might have happened. The scientists took tree ring samples and studied the Great Drought, journalists have written about them, the disappearance, and myths about demons and the real reason why the Anasazi disappeared, and some ancient astronaut theorists say that extraterrestrials visited them and may have guided them to a much vegetated land where they continued to live their lives.
Facts about the Anasazi
The Anasazi were approximately around from 100 B.C. to 1300 A.D., which equals
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show called Ancient Aliens where the cast does research on nearly every culture around the world and makes theories that extraterrestrials have visited them, and either helped that culture, or just let them be. They did an episode on the Anasazi called Legends of the Anasazi. The cast of Ancient Aliens talked to the Zuni and the Hopi tribes, who claim to be descendants of the Anasazi. (Ancient Aliens, 2011) “According to tribes like the Zuni and the Hopi, stories of these otherworldly visitations exist not only in the oral traditions passed down from their ancestors but also in petroglyphs carved into rock all across America. The Zuni claim that some of these petroglyphs depict visitations from star beings.” Apparently, star beings are what the ancient people called the

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