What were the challenges that geography created for the development of long-distance contacts and communication in North America?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Challenges of Geography in North America
1. effects of isolation and the challenges of hostile environments checked or restricted the achievements
2. the Arctic Ocean
a. navigation of the Arctic was an astonishing feat
b. only done by the Thule migrants
3. North Atlantic
a. remarkable to navigate so far without chart or compass
b. colonies remained precarious and isolated
4. North America
a. peoples struggling with isolation
b. Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona (canyon culture)
1. evidence of some sort of political network spread over 57,000 square miles
2. environment seemed unsuitable for settled life
3. economic basis of this civilization was fragile
c. harder to transmit Mesoamerican crops and traditions beyond the world of Chaco Canyon
1. prairie, though a flat expanse, was an ecological barrier
2. few patches could sustain sedentary life
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What will be an ideal response?
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