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So why was Choco abandoned? Any attempt to explain this is spectulation. But speculation by the decendants of the Chocoan people, the Puebloan people of today, does carry a bit more weight. Today's Pueblo people believe that the Chacoan people had become too powerful, had gained too much knowlledge than they could safley use, and they had come to recognize this. The fact that they left just as the climate changed and the once fertile land was becoming inhospitable would cerainly make ancient people believe that. One thing is certain: The buildings at Choco recorded amazing knowledge of the movements of the sun, moon, and stars. When the Pueblo people moved on and built new settlements, none of their buildings reflected any of this knowledge. Nor do any of their present-day traditions reflect such knowledge. It is as if they intentionally forgot everything they knew about the movement of the heavenly bodies when they left Choco.
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So why was Choco abandoned? Any attempt to explain this is spectulation. But speculation by the decendants of the Chocoan people, the Puebloan people of today, does carry a bit more weight. Today's Pueblo people believe that the Chacoan people had become too powerful, had gained too much knowlledge than they could safley use, and they had come to recognize this. The fact that they left just as the climate changed and the once fertile land was becoming inhospitable would cerainly make ancient people believe that. One thing is certain: The buildings at Choco recorded amazing knowledge of the movements of the sun, moon, and stars. When the Pueblo people moved on and built new settlements, none of their buildings reflected any of this knowledge. Nor do any of their present-day traditions reflect such knowledge. It is as if they intentionally forgot everything they knew about the movement of the heavenly bodies when they left Choco.