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SO00 · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Which statement(s) best describe the nature of domestication and cultivation in the southwest United States?

a. When compared to eastern North America it represents an independent center of domestication.
b. It did not include crops such as maize and beans.
c. The earliest domesticates included barley.
d. Reliance on domesticated products failed to support increased populations.
e. One regional tradition developed as a result.

Question 2

The development of population density and overall cultural elaboration in the southwestern United States occurred as a result of:

a. the diffusion of maize agriculture migrating northward from Mexico
b. the development of an intensive system of agriculture based on local plant crops and irrigation
c. the introduction of intensive agriculture from the eastern Woodlands
d. the development of complex trade networks throughout the region
e. the distribution of Post-Uto-Aztecan language speakers.