What Is the "Graying" of America? Describe How This May

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Essay

What is the "graying" of America? Describe how this may affect at least two major social institutions.

Understand the role of gender and kinship in North American Indian agricultural societies.

Compare the political and religious characteristics of societies in Lower Guinea at the time of European contact.

Draw parallels between African societies and agricultural Indians of the Americas concerning political systems, societal roles, and religious practices.

Distinguish the hierarchical, theocratic, and patriarchal nature of 15th-century societies across Europe, Africa, and Mesoamerica from those of most North American Indian societies.

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