Question

Why Plain region is suitable for agricultural purposes?

Answer 1

Cultivation of domesticated plants was a relatively late innovation in the Great Plains compared to the southeastern and southwestern regions of North America. By A.D. 850, semisedentary horticultural villages dotted the banks of the Missouri River and its tributaries as far north as the Knife River in present-day North Dakota on the Northern Plains. These settlements were a result of migration and diffusion from the Mississippian cultural complex to the east. However, agriculture in the Great Plains has always been a risky business threatened by drought, grasshoppers, and early frosts. For that reason early farmers did not depend entirely on the produce of their gardens; rather, they hunted bison and other game and supplemented their diets with meat and diverse wild plants.