All of the Following Are True of the "Vacant Quarter

question 19

Multiple Choice

All of the following are true of the "vacant quarter" EXCEPT that __________________.

• A) the area was rapidly depopulated by a flu epidemic
• B) is was centered in the American Bottom portion of the Mississippi Valley
• C) inhabitants were pressured by the arrival of more northerly tribal farmers
• D) it resulted from the collapse and abandonment of Middle Mississippi chiefdoms

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