USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The shift to full-time farming about a.d. 700 led to a prosperous culture in the Mississippi River valley. This Mississip-pian culture grew corn, squash, and beans together to provide plants with nutrients, support, and shade.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Moche culture preserved some elements of Chavin culture, especially its style of pottery. The Nazca people were great builders of pyramids and palaces and were the first in Mesoamerica to work with metal.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the pre-Columbian era, human sacrifice in Maya culture was the ritual offering of nourishment to the gods. Blood was viewed as a potent source of nourishment for the Maya deities, and the sacrifice of a living creature was a powerful blood offering.

Detailed explanation-4: -In an effort to postpone the day of reckoning, the Aztecs practiced human sacrifice. sun god, Huitzilopochtli, Victims were prepared for the ceremony through elaborate rituals and then brought to the holy shrine, where their hearts were ripped out of their chests and presented to the gods as a holy offering.

Detailed explanation-5: -Maya society was rigidly divided between nobles, commoners, serfs, and slaves. The noble class was complex and specialized. Noble status and the occupation in which a noble served were passed on through elite family lineages.