Question

Compare the American Indian cultures of the Great Basin and the Great Plains to the American Indian cultures along the Atlantic Seaboard and in the Northeast. How were they different, and why?

Answer 1

Answer:

Most scholars break North America—excluding present-day Mexico—into 10 separate culture areas: the Arctic, the Subarctic, the Northeast, the Southeast, the Plains, the Southwest, the Great Basin, California, the Northwest Coast and the Plateau.