Practice question · Select all that apply
The American civilizations built cities and empires while lacking which "standard" technologies?
Hints
- Ask what these societies did without.
- Monumental architecture is exactly what they did build.
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- B. Heavy draft animals and functional wheeled transport
- C. Iron metallurgy
- D. A full writing system, in the Andean case
Why
No iron, no draft animals, and, in the Andes, no script, yet pyramids, planned cities, and a 4,000-km empire all the same. Which retires the idea that these are prerequisites rather than one region’s particular path.
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