How did Eastern Woodlands Indians and Mesoamerican societies differ?
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While the Mesoamerican societies were highly urbanized and stratified, the Eastern Woodlands Indians lived as hunter-gatherers and as agriculturalists. The Eastern Woodlands tribes lived in small villages rather than settled urban areas and moved with the seasons in order to acquire their different food sources through hunting and fishing. As a result, the settlements of Eastern Woodlands Indians did not suffer the sanitation problems and diseases that afflicted ancient cities in Mesoamerican societies. The tribal societies of the Eastern Woodlands were relatively egalitarian as compared to the more hierarchical ones of Mesoamerica. Also, Eastern Woodlands societies were matrilineal instead of patrilineal like in many indigenous societies of Mesoamerica. As compared to the more stratified Mesoamerican societies, trade played a lesser role in Eastern Woodlands societies, who were more communal than individualistic, with the concept of owning land as private property being alien to most of these tribal societies.
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