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Perhaps because of prolonged drought in the thirteenth century and conflicts with Navajo and Apache peoples, the Pueblo peoples abandon their cliff dwellings, moving southward and eastward and establishing new, large villages. Designs on the pottery of this so-called Regressive Pueblo period are naturalistic representations of animals and people rather than the geometric patterns of earlier periods.
Turkish leader Othman (for whom the Ottoman Empire is named) emerges as the prince of a border principality in northeastern Anatolia and begins to seize Byzantine territory.
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