<span>They depended on indigenous political and trading networks that brought slaves to the coasts.</span>
The answer would be flexible in the missing blank.
Had fireplaces, because the passage says that they had a smoke hole in the ceiling
Answer: "The painting serves as an allegory for Manifest Destiny and American westward expansion. ... The figure of Progress is ushering an era of modernization, development, and advancement to the West, which in the painting is portrayed as a dark and savage place, especially when compared to the eastern side of the painting."
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