Accumulating Evidence Indicates That the First Farming Communities in the American

question 2

Multiple Choice

Accumulating evidence indicates that the first farming communities in the American Southwest were likely settled by __________________

• A) an offshoot of the Hopewell culture that used their mound-building skills to construct irrigation systems
• B) Athapaskan speakers who descend from people who drifted southward from Canada around 1500 CE
• C) Spanish colonists who brought with them horses for plowing the land
• D) Uto-Aztecan speakers expanding northward out of Mexico

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