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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?
Mesoamerica: Mesoamerican societies had extensive and complex connections with other societies. These connections included regular trade and commerce, as well as cultural and religious exchange. This interconnectedness enabled social structures to be highly organized and stratified, allowing for the development of powerful city-states like the Aztec or Maya. In addition, these interactions also allowed for vast networks of communication which facilitated information sharing throughout the region.
South America: In South America, connections between societies were less developed than in Mesoamerica due to its geographic isolation from other regions. However, many cultures such as the Inca created a network of roads throughout their empire that enabled them to communicate more effectively with neighboring groups. As a result, South American societies were able to develop relatively uniform social structures based around communal ties and collective labor practices that unified large areas of land under one rule.
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).