In North America, a settlement with over one hundred earthen mounds developed near present-day St. Louis. This settlement represented a __________.

A) large and powerful chiefdom
B) very small community that did not last long
C) settlement that became the most powerful city in the ancient world
D) way station for populations as they moved north


A) large and powerful chiefdom

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