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APUSH.031 Context Before European Contact
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Which explanation best describes why some resource-rich coastal areas supported settled communities without maize agriculture?
A
Coastal resources mattered mainly after Europeans built commercial fishing fleets.
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Settled communities were impossible without maize, so the evidence must be false.
C
European wheat and cattle had already made coastal communities sedentary by 1491.
D
Reliable fish, shellfish, plant, and forest resources could make intensive local economies possible without the same farming systems used elsewhere.
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