Well, so here you have it. These cliff homes were built somewhere between 1100 and 1400 A.D. by the Sinagua People. near what is today Camp Verde in Arizona.
Accessible only by retractable ladders, they provided some security from marauding bands.
Why are they called "Montezuma's Castle" ?
For the same reason that American Natives are called Indians.
Europeans explorers simply did not know any better. They were not "the sharpest knives in the drawer."
Columbus thought that he had arrived in India, and called the people he met there "Indians."
White explorers found these dwellings in 1860 and thought that they had a connection with Montezuma, although he was born after these "Castles" had long been abandoned.
Anyway, it's fun to speculate.
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