The great cere
side of the ocean, movements of people and ideas preceded the Atlantic connection. Great empires-in the Valley of Mexico, on the Mississippi River...-had collapsed or declined in the centuries
ed on his first traatiantic voyage, the Mexica, or Aztecs, were consolidating their position in Mexico); their city was a center of both trade and military might. Tenochtitlán [the Aztec capital)..
opulation greater than in the largest city in contemporary Europe
Which of the following best
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spread east and west from its center, the city of Cahokia, on the Mississippi River near the site of modern St. Louis. It was a successor to earlier cultures, evidence of which can be seen in
y built Caholia declined and was ultimately abandoned completely in the later thirteenth century. Throughout the Southeast, smaller mound-building centers continued."
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, historian, The Atlantic in World History, 2012
They had mixed agricult
They were nomadic peoples who
Mississippian societies described in the excerpt?
therer economies that favored the development of permanent villages.
They lived in isolated, impermanent commu
s to move throughout the region.
little trace of their presence once a settlement had been abandoned.
They used advanced agricultural practices like irrigation support economic growth.