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DyllonKazuo

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How did the Pueblo peoples of the Southwest reduce the risk of cultivation?
 
  a. By planting corn in areas most likely to flood.
  b. By planting crops in areas least likely to wash away during severe flooding.
  c. By planting crops weeks apart to avoid untimely frost.
  d. All of these were used to reduce risk.

Question 2

What is the term for the form of cultivation involving clearing a plot of trees, planting crops for a year or two, and then abandoning the plot?
 
  a. Dry land gardening
  b. Shifting cultivation
  c. Intensive cultivation
  d. Plow agriculture



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

b





 

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