The particular cultures and societies of Africa, the Americas, and Pacific Oceania discussed in this chapter developed largely in isolation. What evidence would support this statement?And what may challenge it?Chapter 6

The evidence that supports the cultures and societies of Africa, the Americas and Pacific Oceania developed largely in isolation,  it had to do with different factors: it had to do with the slow movement of people, slowly expanding to East Africa and not immigration of outsiders (p. 252), and the fact the systems of agriculture that they had in place worked very well for them for hundreds of years. In addition, the Americas were hunters and gatherers and most villages were agriculture based. Also there were nomadic tribes living in the Southern part of America that were hunters and gatherers. All those tribes that inhabited from north america all the way to south america created individual settlements linked to one another in local trading networks and sometimes in an extensive ¨webs of exchange that brought many local products such as buffalo hides, cooper, turquoise, seashells, macaw feathers, and coiled baskets from quite distant locations¨(p)255. In regards to Pacific Oceania, they also created networks and communities not in the same manner as the empires, New Guinea, New Zeland, and Oceania was the last part of the world to receive human settlers, and they arrived from Island Southeast Asia, about 3,500 years ago and  ¨the greatest maritime expansion known to history¨ (258).