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Explore the Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico and imagine the lives of the ancestral Pueblo people who used to live here. Ancestral Pueblo people, whose relatives are the modern Pueblo Native American people still living in the Southwest USA, built Aztec Ruins about 900 years ago. Like our big cities today, Aztec Ruins was probably a place where lots of people gathered for religion, trade, and politics. Decorative horizontal bands of dark stone adorn the outer walls of the West Ruin, which had perhaps 400 rooms and stood three stories high.
