Read the following passage describing the pre-Columbian Great Basin and answer the question below.
"In the arid Great Basin, where water was scarce and vegetation sparse, indigenous groups like the Shoshone and Paiute developed highly mobile societies. Rather than establishing permanent agricultural villages, they moved seasonally to exploit diverse resources, harvesting pine nuts in the uplands, gathering seeds in the valleys, and hunting small game. This mobility allowed them to survive in a challenging environment that could not support large, stationary populations."
The mobile lifestyle of the Great Basin societies described in the excerpt was most directly a response to which of the following?
- The scarcity of water and natural resources in their arid environmentCevap
- BA desire to maintain cultural uniformity with other tribes across the continent
- CThe initial acquisition of domestic livestock like sheep and cattle from Europe
- DThe need to escape tribute demands under the Spanish encomienda system
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The scarcity of water and natural resources in their arid environment
The correct answer is correct because the mobile lifestyle of Great Basin societies, such as the Shoshone and Paiute, was a direct adaptation to the dry climate and sparse natural resources of their geographic region.
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Indigenous societies adapted to and transformed their diverse environments, with Great Basin and Great Plains societies developing mobile lifestyles in response to aridity and resource scarcity.
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