Exam 10: Societies and Networks in the Americas and the Pacific 300–1200

The term _________________ describes the spread of common technologies, cultural practices, and forms of social and political organization among Mississippi Valley farming societies from the eighth century onward.

The Andean region did not develop the tradition of ________________ seen in Mesoamerica.

What united Mesoamerica as a regional society was a common _____________ that produced similar patterns of elite status, political power, and economic control.

Most scholars believe that in its formative stages, Teotihuacán was ruled by

After Easter Island's ecology was devastated by the clearing of the island's forests, the remaining people subsisted mainly on

The languages spoken on Bougainville are

The eventual adoption of maize as a staple food northern Mexico and the southwestern United States was made possible in part by

The collapse of Tiwanaku around 1000 seems to have been caused by

Scholars have determined that the Moche society suffered through a drought lasting more than thirty years in the late sixth century on the basis of

In Mayan culture, ch'ulel was