The Mississippian Culture and the Three Sisters Agriculture

Ancient Indigenous Cities and Engineering: Chaco Canyon and Cahokia

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Explain how the intensive agriculture of corn, beans, and squash (the Three Sisters) supported dense populations along river floodplains.

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Ancient Indigenous Cities and Engineering: Chaco Canyon and Cahokia

4th Grade · Social Studies · US-MD-SS

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Analyze how Ancestral Puebloan and Mississippian societies developed advanced agriculture, monumental architecture, and continental trade networks centered around major urban hubs.

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6/7.8.1.aMaryland Social Studies Standards · 4th Grade

Analyzing how human responses to the natural environment created early complex societies in North America.