Southwestern Native American life was challenging, the climate the most, although, tribes used resources around them to adapt to their environment. They relied on what they had, on their ability to make objects out of their resources and their capability to hunt animals and cultivate. I think these tribes in this type of location did their best to support themselves and did very well at adapting to their environment. What helped them do this is the weather and the supplies found in the environment. They lived in very harsh environments and even so, they lived for about 600 years. All of the examples shown, demonstarte how well they adapted to any kind of evironment, warm, hot and cold. Eventually they died out, but not because of the environment, because they got defeated by their enemies.
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