Why did Indians only build ruins?

Answer 1

Have you ever seen the tools they were using?

Answer 2

They didn't only build ruins although much has been lost in following decades. The most notable settlements are the pueblos,

Pueblos are traditional Native American communities of the Southwest United States of America. Though some pueblos have few standing adobe buildings, the commuities are recognized worldwide for adobe buildings, which are also sometimes called "pueblos." The Castilian word pueblo, evolved from the Latin word populus ("people"), means "village".

"On the central Spanish meseta the unit of settlement was and is the pueblo; that is to say, the large nucleated village surrounded by its own fields, with no outlying farms, separated from its neighbours by some considerable distance, sometimes as much as ten miles or so. The demands of agrarian routine and the need for defence, the simple desire for human society in the vast solitude of the plains, together dictated that it should be so. Nowadays the pueblo might have a population running into thousands. Doubtless they were smaller in the early middle ages, but we should probably not be far wrong if we think of them as having had populations of some hundreds." (Fletcher 1984)

Of the federally recognized Native American communities in the Southwest, those authorized by the King of Spain as Pueblos at the time treaties ceded Spanish territory to the United States are now legally recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs as Pueblos. Some of the Pueblos also came into the United States by treaty with Mexico, which briefly gained jurisdiction over territory in the Southwest ceded by Spain. There are 20 federally recognized Pueblos that are home to Pueblo people.

Many Indian tribes such as the Plains Indians were nomadic and didn't build much.

Answer 3

During the Great Indian Counsel of 1793 and after a great drought, Chief 'Great Crow Eye ' devised a brilliant plan to pump up the economy.
First to attract greedy white men, they hid all over California the gold they exchanged for centuries with Aztecs and Muiscas through the little known ' Route of Cotton' which expanded from what we know today as Missouri to the ancient Muisca center of San Augustin (Colombia).
Immediately after that they set out on building the 'Ruins' close to the Pueblos full of beautiful souvenir stands and very affordable hotels.
Unfortunately they left the marketing campaign to the Apaches which weren't very good at it and the plan completely flopped.

The current period we know as 'Indian Renaissance' takes the until now forgotten idea of 'Great Crow Eye' by building casinos and golf courses across the entire country.

Answer 4

Sorry to deflate your egotism, your buildings and homes will be in ruins in a thousands years and your bones will have turned to dust. All your accomplishments and those of you kids and grandkids will be lost to oblivion....

Answer 5

They weren't ruins when they built them - they got that way after being abandoned and left to the elements.

Answer 6

They didn't build ruins time made them!!!

Answer 7

they did no longer have any women with blonde hair to encourage them to do it accurate. > And why do not people now days bypass freshen up them places? do not Wal-Mart favor room for brand new shops?

Answer 8

if you dont know anything about India or any other country then no need to open your mouth and asked such stupid questions.

Answer 9

ur brain is in ruins.

Answer 10

because they belongs history.