Cultural practices in the Americas seem to have been shared mostly within geographical zones where unrelated peoples adopted similar technologies and social organizations. An example of such a cultural area is Mesoamerica, where millennia of coexistence and shared development among the peoples of the region produced a fairly homogeneous culture with complex agricultural and social patterns. Another well-known example is the North American plains where until the 19th century several peoples shared the traits of nomadic hunter-gatherers based primarily on buffalo hunting. COUNT 5
QSN1 What did geographical zones encourage the sharing of? ANS1 Cultural practices QSN2 What did people in the same reason adopt? ANS2 similar technologies and social organizations QSN3 Where did millennia of coexistence produce a culture with advanced agricultural and social patterns? ANS3 Mesoamerica QSN4 How long was there a homogeneous culture on the North American plains? ANS4 until the 19th century QSN5 What creature did the nomadic hunter-gatherers of the plains hunt? ANS5 buffalo