How did geography affect connections within Mesoamerica and between Mesoamerica and the rest of the Americas?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Affect of geography in Mesoamerica
1. Yucatán was a new frontier for the Maya
a. use of wells for irrigation
b. canoe-borne trade with central Mexico
c. region of unprecedentedly intense exploitation in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
2. remote from the rest of America
a. roads north from Mesoamerica led across dangerous territory
b. nomadic peoples patrolled the northern edges of the Mesoamerican culture area, practicing raids and conquests
c. like those launched in Eurasia from the steppes into China or Europe, albeit on a smaller scale
d. high road north from what is now Mexico to the nearest patch of easily cultivable soil led through a 61-mile pass known in modern times as the Jornada del Muerto
3. harder to transmit Mesoamerican crops and traditions beyond the world of Chaco Canyon
a. prairie, though a flat expanse, was an ecological barrier
b. few patches could sustain sedentary life
c. Mesoamerica's toolkit, food, and ways of life and thought traveled across the Gulf of Mexico, by seaborne trade, to reach the North American Southeast
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