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Technically, the Hohokam were culturally and ethnically an outpost of Mesoamerican civilization in what is now the United States. Though they peacefully colonized and settled the area, there is some evidencesome evidence that they engaged in warfare with the pastoralist Apache and Navajo when those cultures migrated into the area near the end of the Hohokam Classical Era, but it's not clear cut. (Mostly a string of fortifications along the migration routes. No battle sites have been found.)

Unfortunately, most of the written history of the area as recorded by the Pre-Columbian civilizations was destroyed by Catholic missionaries as heathen art. We may never know if they suffered incursions from northern pastoralists like Asian and European civilizations suffered from the plains of Central Asia. There's currently no archaeological evidence to support it, and the parts of Oasisamerica easily reachable by these empires had nothing worth conquering.

Technically, the Hohokam were culturally and ethnically an outpost of Mesoamerican civilization in what is now the United States. Though they peacefully colonized and settled the area, there is some evidence that they engaged in warfare with the pastoralist Apache and Navajo when those cultures migrated into the area near the end of the Hohokam Classical Era, but it's not clear cut. (Mostly a string of fortifications along the migration routes. No battle sites have been found.)

Unfortunately, most of the written history of the area as recorded by the Pre-Columbian civilizations was destroyed by Catholic missionaries as heathen art. We may never know if they suffered incursions from northern pastoralists like Asian and European civilizations suffered from the plains of Central Asia. There's currently no archaeological evidence to support it, and the parts of Oasisamerica easily reachable by these empires had nothing worth conquering.

Technically, the Hohokam were culturally and ethnically an outpost of Mesoamerican civilization in what is now the United States. Though they peacefully colonized and settled the area, there is some evidence that they engaged in warfare with the pastoralist Apache and Navajo when those cultures migrated into the area near the end of the Hohokam Classical Era, but it's not clear cut. (Mostly a string of fortifications along the migration routes. No battle sites have been found.)

Unfortunately, most of the written history of the area as recorded by the Pre-Columbian civilizations was destroyed by Catholic missionaries as heathen art. We may never know if they suffered incursions from northern pastoralists like Asian and European civilizations suffered from the plains of Central Asia. There's currently no archaeological evidence to support it, and the parts of Oasisamerica easily reachable by these empires had nothing worth conquering.

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Technically, the Hohokam were culturally and ethnically an outpost of Mesoamerican civilization in what is now the United States. Though they peacefully colonized and settled the area, there is some evidence that they engaged in warfare with the pastoralist Apache and Navajo when those cultures migrated into the area near the end of the Hohokam Classical Era, but it's not clear cut. (Mostly a string of fortifications along the migration routes. No battle sites have been found.)

Unfortunately, most of the written history of the area as recorded by the Pre-Columbian civilizations was destroyed by Catholic missionaries as heathen art. We may never know if they suffered incursions from northern pastoralists like Asian and European civilizations suffered from the plains of Central Asia. There's currently no archaeological evidence to support it, and the parts of Oasisamerica easily reachable by these empires had nothing worth conquering.