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Persistence of Settlements and Compound Average Annual Population Growth Rate in the Yautepec Valley
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Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the text?
although the forward continuity data suggest that the decline of Teotihuacan occasioned economic and political instability in the Yautepec Valley, these developments were nonetheless associated with a net increase in the valley's population.
A
values for both backward and forward continuity in the Yautepec Valley were consistently higher during the centuries of Teotihuacan's hegemony than they were in the period following the collapse of the hegemony.
B
Teotihuacan's hegemony imposed stability on the Yautepec Valley, mitigating the decrease in the compound average annual growth rate of the valley's population as well as the decrease in the number of cities and towns there in the Early Classic and Middle Classic.
C
the population of the Yautepec Valley remained essentially unchanged across the Early, Middle, and Late Classic periods, despite fluctuations in the forward continuity of its settlements.
D