An Explosion of Complexity: Ranked Societies in the Old and New Worlds |  |
An Explosion of Complexity: Ranked Societies in the Old and New Worlds
| 1. Explain why Cahokia is unique in North America. |
| 2. Describe how the societies at Watson Brake, Poverty Point and in the Pacific Northwest were able to be complex without relying on agriculture. |
| 3. Define what the ethnographic present is. |
| 4. Identify the differences between a complex society and a state society. |
| 5. Understand that cultures are never stagnant but it is not a foregone conclusion that a culture will move from a simple to a complex to a state society. Cultures develop as far as required to survive and propagate. |
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