According to Richard Burger, what best explains the widespread adoption of Chavín religion as evidenced by the spread of Chavín iconography across the central Andes between 500 and 250 BC?
a. Political expansion; local communities were subject to military occupation by Chavín society, and local religions were prohibited and quickly replaced by Chavín religion.
b. The reliance of neighboring communities on Chavín agricultural crops; crops were traded to local communities in exchange for political and religious allegiance to Chavín society.
c. The extension of a powerful shared cosmology which resulted in the growth of complex interregional exchange networks.
d. The spread of animal species accompanying an increasingly drier climate.
e. The reliance on ceramic traditions throughout Amazonia.
c
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