Compare and contrast the similarities and differences of the Anasazi, Hohokam, and Cahokia cultures. What factors influenced the respective economic and cultural development of these three early Native American cultures?

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An ideal answer will:
1. Illustrate how the Anasazi, Hokokam and Cahokia cultures adopted cultivated surplus agriculture and seasonal crops and established settled communities in their respective geographic locales.
2. Compare and contrast how the success of the described agricultural systems, trading networks, and settled communities created by the Anasazi, Hohokam, and Cahokia cultures were connected to the development of differentiated societies.
3. Compare and contrast the geographic areas, timelines, urban density, and population size of the respective communities built in North America by the Anasazi, Hohokam, and Cahokia culture.
4. Compare and contrast the defensive and climatic protective roles of cliff-dwelling housing and palaces of the Anasazi culture with the protective high walls and thatched-roof houses of the city where Cahokia people resided.
5. Compare and contrast the roles and archaeological evidence of religious and lifecycle activities of the so-called Mound Builders (Cahokia people) with the roles and archaeological evidence of religious and lifecycle activities of the Anasazi people.
6. Compare and contrast how the temperate warming of the earth and drought both affected the progressive evolution and decline of the Anasazi and Cahokia agricultural communities.
7. Compare and contrast evidence about how the abandoned ruins of Cahokia, Hohokam, and Anasazi communities may have influenced the development of other Native American communities in their respective regions.
8. Write a concise and effective conclusion.