Navajo houses – American architecture
Can you see the sheepskins? How about the television? (1973) When people met the first Spanish explorers in the 1500s AD, most Navajo people were living in hogans. By trading with the [...]
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American houses – Architecture
American houses - Iroquois longhouse Houses in the Northwest Because North America is a big place, different parts of North America have different weather. In the Pacific Northwest, there were long rainy winters, [...]
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Visit historic houses – American architecture
Reconstructed houses at Plimoth Plantation, MA Projects around historic houses Maybe there are some history museums near where you live that have preserved or reconstructed old houses. There are different [...]
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Later Cherokee towns – Native Americans
A Cherokee house in the 1800s In the late 1600s AD, Cherokee people were still building their towns about the way they had built them before the Europeans arrived. We have a good [...]
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Ute houses – Wickiups – Native Americans
Wickiup - a Ute house Most people who belonged to the Ute group of Native Americans lived in what is now Utah and Colorado, in the high western plains and in the Rocky [...]
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Inuit houses – Igloos
An Inuit village in 1575 AD Most of the time, most Inuit people lived in wooden houses built near the coast, where they could get to their fishing boats easily. They built [...]
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Native American architecture
Replica of Cherokee winter house What kind of house you lived in depended a lot on where you lived, and how you lived. Many people were nomadic, travelling around with their dogs following [...]
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Westminster Abbey – London
Westminster Abbey western facade (front) Westminster Abbey is a large church in the Gothic style in London, England. Edward the Confessor built an abbey here in 1050 AD, in the Romanesque style. (An abbey is a place for monks or nuns to [...]
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Tower of London – William the Conqueror
White Tower of the Tower of London (built in the 1060s AD) After William conquered England in 1066 AD, he needed a castle to live in when he was in London. He needed a castle [...]
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Toulouse – St. Sernin – Romanesque
Church of St. Sernin, Toulouse, France In 1080 AD, the church of St. Sernin in Toulouse was a busy place. Charlemagne had given the church some saints' relics, and many people stopped to pray [...]
