What was the focus of development in North America in the late first millennium?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. Focus of development
1. open new frontiers of exploitation for intensive agriculture
a. new crops and new technologies with transforming effects
b. the great extension of maize cultivation into regions of North America where the inhabitants formerly relied on foraging
2. state formation
a. a large trading network flourished between the Missouri and Ohio river valleys
b. similar material culture
c. larger-scale communities in Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio River valleys
3. city building
a. North American Southwest
b. large dwellings of adobe or stone replaced the semiunderground houses
c. villages got larger building toward the urban network that emerged around 1000
4. hunter-gatherers could engage with their environment in more productive ways
a. northwest coast of North America, houses got bigger as fishhooks got more plentiful and became more specialized
b. the northern edge of America, whale hunters worked their way along the Arctic coast, spreading new hunting and fishing techniques