How did this week's focus on the Americas and the case in Africa give us a different perspective on complex societies and how we term things like a 'city' or
'state'. How does it change traditional narratives? Give examples and you may
want to compare it to previous complex societies we have studied?

"the plan of removing the aboriginal people who yet remain within the settled portions of the united states . . approaches its consummation. . an extensive region . . has been assigned for their permanent residence. it has been divided into districts and allotted among them. many have already removed and others are preparing to go. . " removal of southern indians to indian territory, 1835 this passage is most closely related to a) imperialism. b) the civil war. c) westward expansion. d) the french indian war.