Different native societies adapted to and transformed their environments through innovations in agriculture,
resource use, and social structure

A) The spread of maize cultivation from present-day Mexico northward into the present-day American Southwest and beyond supported economic development, settlement, advanced irrigation, and social diversification among societies.
B) Societies responded to the aridity of the Great Basin and the grasslands of the western Great Plains by developing largely mobile lifestyles.
C) In the Northeast, the Mississippi River Valley, and along the Atlantic seaboard some societies developed mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economies that favored the development of permanent villages.
D) Societies in the Northwest and present-day California supported themselves by hunting and gathering, and in some areas developed settled communities supportedby the vast resources of the ocean.