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Chapter 7 Classical Era Variations - Big Picture Question #3What generated change in the histories of Africa and the Americas
during the classical era?
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What generated change in the historiesof Africa and the Americas during the
classical era?
In Africa, driving forces of change included the
migration of the Bantu peoples into Africasouth of the equator, the emergence of NigerValley urban centers, and the rise and fall ofboth Axum and Mero.
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What generated change in the histories of Africaand the Americas during the classical era?
Contact with the trade networks of Eurasia alsogenerated change in Africa.Through contact along these networks, Christianity
arrived in northeastern Africa, including Axum. Axumderived its written script from South Arabia.The Bantu-speaking peoples adopted new crops,including coconuts, sugarcane, and especially bananas,
which Indonesian sailors and immigrants brought toEast Africa early in the first millennium c.e.
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What generated change in thehistories of Africa and the Americas
during the classical era?
In the Americas, the emergence of the
Maya and Teotihuacn civilizationspushed Mesoamerican civilizationtoward new levels of complexity.
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What generated change in the histories ofAfrica and the Americas during the
classical era?
The Chavn religious cult provided forthe first time and for several centuries a
measure of economic and culturalintegration to much of the PeruvianAndes.
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What generated change in the histories of Africa and theAmericas during the classical era?
Additional challenging evidence is thecritical arrival of maize fromMesoamerica into the Ancestral Pueblo
and mound-building societies.
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What generated change in the histories ofAfrica and the Americas during the
classical era?
The spread of maize into NorthAmerica made it possible for theAncestral Pueblo society to takeshape and allowed Cahokia toachieve a higher degree ofsophistication than did the mound-building societies that preceded it.