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Why did agriculture come relatively late to Vermont? What impacts did the rise of agriculture generally? In Vermont? - ANSWER - It's cold! - Impacts: o Size of communities grow, people tended to stay in one place more than in previous areas o 1600: large settlements (~1000 people) along rivers o Europeans arrived before large societies or hierarchal emerged What is a cosmology? Compare the cosmologies of Abenakis and Europeans around 1600. - ANSWER COSMOLOGY: the belief about how the uni...