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Chapter 7 Classical Era Variations - Big Picture Question #2The particularcultures and societies of Africa and of the Americas discussed

in this chapter developed largely in isolation from one another.Whatevidencewouldsupportthis statement, and what mightchallengeit?

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The particularcultures and societies ofAfrica and of the Americas discussed in thischapter developed largely in isolation from

one another.

Evidence in support of this statement

includes the complete physicalseparation and lack of contactbetween the African and Americancultures and societies discussed inthis chapter.

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The particularcultures and societies of Africa andof the Americas discussed in this chapter developed

largely in isolation from one another.

The geographic and cultural separation betweenMero and Axum on the one hand and the Niger

Valley civilization on the other also providessupport.

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The particularcultures and societies ofAfrica and of the Americas discussed in thischapter developed largely in isolation from

one another.

So too does the significant physical distances

that separated Andean, North American, andMesoamerican civilizations, along with the lackof sustained contact between these three regions.

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The particularcultures and societies of Africaand of the Americas discussed in this

chapter developed largely in isolation from oneanother.

Evidence to challenge this statement

includes the extensive interactionbetween the Maya and Teotihuacncivilizations; the conquest of Meroby Axum; and the encounters betweenBantu-speaking peoples andgathering and hunting groups,

including the Batwa, as the Bantu-speaking peoples migrated into Africasouth of the equator.

The word ban-tu means"person" and has come tosignify a great linguisticfamily that today is spoken byaround 100 million people insouthern and central Africa.

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The particularcultures and societies of Africa andof the Americas discussed in this chapter developed

largely in isolation from one another.

The Chavn religious cult, which provided forthe first time and for several centuries ameasure of economic and culturalintegration to much of the Peruvian Andes,also challenges the statement.

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The particularcultures and societies of Africaand of the Americas discussed in this

chapter developed largely in isolation from oneanother.

Additional challenging evidence is the critical

arrival of maize from Mesoamerica intothe Ancestral Pueblo and mound-buildingsocieties.