Compare how the societies in Mesoamerica, South America, and sub-Saharan Africa were affected by the connections that they had or failed to have with other societies. How did these societies structure their broad social relations?
How the societies in Mesoamerica, South America, and sub-Saharan Africa were affected by the connections
Sub-Saharan Africa: Sub-Saharan African societies lacked significant external connections due to their geographic isolation from other regions for much of their history before European colonization began in the late 19th century. As a result, social relations within sub-Saharan Africa tended to be far more decentralized than those found in either Mesoamerica or South America; there was no overarching political authority unifying different groups together apart from small kingdoms or chiefdoms that often held only limited amounts of power over local populations. Social relations instead relied heavily on family ties and clan loyalty while economic production tended to be largely localized without any sort of regional specialization or division of labor along ethnic lines (as seen further north).