Why did pacal the great make a connection between his mother and the divine first mother of the mayan religion?
to justify capturing enemies and making them slaves
to create conflict within his domain
to add legitimacy and stability to his reign
to form an alliance with a nearby city-state

The correct answer is C) to add legitimacy and stability to his reign.

Pacal the Great make a connection to his mother and the divine First Mother of the Mayan religion to add legitimacy and stability to his reign.

Pacal (603-683) was the great Mayan Emperor of Palenque, in a selvatic region of today's state of Chiapas in South Mexico. The Emperor associated his power and magnificence to the gods, and when he made a connection to his mother and the divine First Mother of the Mayan religion to add legitimacy and stability to his reign. This way his subjects could honor as the divine Emperor he was.

i just did something on this guy a few days a go give me two minutes to find it in my notes.

answer:   migrations were important in the neolithic period. "two major migrations passing through southeastern europe were confirmed by the means of archaeo-genetic studies."

the first migration was the early neolithic period -- 6,000 before common era (bce) -- when the first farmers, from anatolia -- asia minor -- spread through europe. the second migration occurred during the early bronze age (3,000-2,500 bce) when the so-called "steppe population," from the eurasian steppe, replaced much of northern europe's previous population.

the first farmers of northern and western europe passed through southeastern europe with limited hunter-gatherer genetic admixture, which occurs when two or more previously isolated populations begin interbreeding. however, some groups that remained mixed extensively -- without the male-biased, hunter-gatherer admixture that prevailed later in the north and west, according to latest discoveries. southeastern europe continued to be a nexus between east and west, with intermittent genetic contact with the steppe people up to 2,000 years before the migrations that replaced much of northern europe's population.

"in some places, hunter-gatherers and incoming farmers seem to have mixed very quickly," says iain mathieson, a geneticist at the university of pennsylvania, who was first author of the paper. "but, mostly, the two groups remained isolated, at least for the first few hundred years. these hunter-gatherers had been living there for thousands of years, and it must have been quite a shock to have these new people show up -- with a completely different lifestyle and appearance."