Conrad Demarest Model of Empire

“Semi-sedentary” villages & nomadism in eastern woodlands of America. Ancestral Pueblo build small settlements (pit houses, Great houses) in the American Southwest (Chaco canyon) Hopewell mound builders built large settlements in the Mississippi R. Valley. Latin America. Mesoamerica. Mayan city-states. Teotihuacán. Andean So. America ... ................
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