how come Native North Americans didn’t have vast empires of wealth and cities like Montezuma had down in Mexico?
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The people that lived in Chaco Canyon (https://www.nps.gov/chcu/index.htm) in the 4 corners area of the Southwest built multiple cities in and around the canyon, complete with a huge road system (180 miles worth of 15-30 foot wide roads, nearly perfectly straight, with stairs carved into cliff faces in lieu of going around canyon edges). The cities main buildings were built oriented on solar and lunar cycles. They made a petroglyph to track the solstices called The Sun Dagger (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajada_Butte). They weren’t quite pyramid builders, but they were pretty substantial builders until they disappeared.
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