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What are 4 characteristics of Mesoamerican States?
What are:
(1) Social, administrative, and site hierarchies
(2) ability to mobilize labor to build and maintain public architecture
(3)non-farming specialists (food surplus) such as kings, priests, or artisans supported by agriculturalists
(4)elaborate rituals, art, calendars and writing used to facilitate and legitimize elite status, e.g. celebrate great events in elite lives
(5)control of trade (resources)