| Show THE ANCIENT CLIFF DWELLERS some of our of the interior department have boort been foci focusing tsing their interest hite iest in a civilization liza tion which was in the course ot of development as far back as aa A D on what la is now biow our car tableland in south southwestern wea torn colorado the system of tree ring chronology worked out by A E douglass of the steward Ob sorva tory or of the university of arizona thas ihas made possible accurate cat cal atlon of this ihla people identified AS the cliff dwellers study of tile the ruins of tile tha cliff dwellers reveals a civilization that was not tar far inferior to that of tile the indians that existed in peru contral america and southern At mexico exico and that an indian settlement has occupied a single site there in our national park land tho the mesa alesa vedo veda national park colo for about two centuries richard and alfred wetherill discovered these remarkable ruins the first they saw was 9 given ivon the name mania cliff palace because it pro dented a picture so amazingly like that of a palace front this view as they behold beheld it across a small cliff canyon nichea lit in a great rocky cliff to thosa these who visited cliff palace acon a likeness Is found in ili It its astrue structure to our modern modem apartment houses it originally consisted of about dwelling rooms and 23 sacred rooms or kivas these are built as aa high as tour four i built tit in a shallow cave cliff palace ex tends leads from the it t ahe le to UK the rocky ledge in descent filin shapo po feet long rile axt emp dates ot of tin fcc or of aliff palace hava ha a luni beffi at the years yeara taid 41 V A J which also erosmo lle ile time of its it li la beloved that the first agrical agricultural nid hiriS occupied tile the cavi cave in which af palace was built belll Is as far back I 1 Is 13 lot huou luou B 0 conte contemporaneous ni po s european und and asiatic events with tile the construction and occupancy of cliff palace may inay be outlined with interest tho im of the Citi jades in hi europe were undertaken during the years to 1270 A D 1 with the defeat of harold at hastings by william tho the Con conquers quero I 1064 1 the rulo rule of norman kings in n eng lanil land logan began and lasted until tile the leilh of 0 stephan in 1154 followed by the angevin or at dynasty principles of government wore were taking form along digre digressing saing lines in ili england and france in tile the bonnor the foundation of at lice representative government was bi b ing laid lit in tile latter monarchical government wua was being strength boned under tile the rogans ot louis tile the fat philip augustus and st loula lottis IX tho the noi northern thorn part of china was taken by tho the mongols Mon Alon gols or Tar tartars tars about 1100 and about 1280 kublal khan established tile the yuan dynasty tho the goehs goths over ran portugal to be followed by the saracens saracena Sara cens or moors who wore were driven out in 1130 1139 by alphonso alphonse who assumed reign within this period many other interesting events took place wllliam llara thol thel conqueror had completed a survey of the english realm in 1080 1086 known as the book ook in ili 1201 the university of 0 paris was cliart chartered ered by phillip 11 II the magna alagna charter was signed by king john at runnymede 1216 1215 the rise of the mongol empire under khan khali took place in the beginning of tho century f coal was first discovered near newcastle england in 1233 about j 1240 roots roofs in london wore were still thatched with straw and windows 1 were of lattice simon do mont fort established tile the house of commons 1265 as a national legislative body of Eri england gland polo made 1 ills his great contribution to civilization through his travels which began 1271 had flad tho the cliff dwellers left a written whitten record of their achievements it might have been as color ful as some of the con contemporary historical events above recalled |
