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Mesoamerica

If the Americas hosted civilizations, cities, and empires in ________ and the Andes, they also housed various alternative forms of human community during the second- wave era and beyond.

Luba

Among the ________ people of Central Africa, male rulers operated in alliance with powerful women, particularly spirit mediums, who were thought to contain the spirit of the king.

Luba art

________ represented female ancestors as "keepers of secret royal knowledge ..

Batwa

In the rain forest region of Central Africa, the foraging ________ (Pygmy) people, at least some of them, became "forest specialists "who produced honey, wild game, elephant products, animal skins, and medicinal barks and plants, all of which entered regional trading networks in exchange for the agricultural products of their Bantu neighbors.

Mound building cultures

________ flourished in the western and southern regions of the Appalachian Mountains on the Eastern coast of North America.

southwestern United States

The Anasazi of the ________, now called the Ancestral Pueblo, and the mound- building cultures of the eastern woodlands provide two illustrations from North America.

second millennium BCE

The southwestern region of North America, an arid land cut by mountain ranges and large basins, first acquired maize from its place of origin in Mesoamerica during the ________, but it took roughly 2, 000 years for that crop, later supplemented by beans and squash, to become the basis of a settled agricultural way of living.

Bantu expansion

And sometimes ________ was less a movement of people than the diffusion of new patterns of living involving language, root crops, grains, sheep and cattle, pottery styles, and ironworking technology.

Supernatural power

________ deriving from ancient heroes, ancestors, or nature spirits also resided in charms, which could be activated by proper rituals and used to control the rains, defend the village, achieve success in hunting, or identify witches.

Ancestral Pueblo cultures

________ flourished in the western coast of North America, in the Rocky Mountains.

Mesoamerica

Sunflowers, originally domesticated in ________, also found a place in diets of eastern woodland peoples.

North America

Ancestral Pueblo and Mound Builders