How was the structure of civilization in north america different from central and south america?

Native peoples like the Maya and the Olmec dominated the scene in pre-Columbian Central America. In the late 15th century, in the wake of Christopher Columbus's "discovery" of the Caribbean islands, the Spanish colonized the entire region. Their first settlement was in Panama in 1509, and in 1519 Pedro Arias de Avila began to explore to the north of Panama, into Central America. Herman Cortes continued the colonization in the 1520s and raided and occupied territory held for centuries

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affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

d. it adversely affected american productivity