▶ Your Answer : The reading passage contends that Anthropologists have been trying to determine what the cause of this rapid disintegration was, and they have come up with several satisfactory explanations. On the other hand, the lecturer brings up several explanations that contradict this argument. First of all, the lecturer points that the Hohokam people were not forced to relocate because of devastating floods in the region. This is attributed to the fact that researchers have determined that the area experienced severe flooding prior to the disappearance of the Hohokam,but they can be recovered. This refutes the author's point that to relocate forced the Hohokam people due to devastating floods in the region. Moreover, in the lecture, the point is made that the Hohokam society did not collapse due to an epidemic. It is true that the extensive irrigation canals constructed by the Hohokam could have transported waterborne diseases from village to village, and people had been killed by diseases, but they disappeared in area after that time. This casts doubt on the idea in the reading passage that Hohokam society collapsed because of a deadly epidemic. The final point made by the lecturer is that the Hohokam civilization did not disintegrate because of internal conflict. It is obvious that oral histories of the Pima Indians teach that the Hohokam people relocated against their leaders, but there is no evidence to make people reliable. While both the reading passage and the lecturer deal with the Hohokam civilization's collapse, the lecturer effectively opposes all of the specific points presented in the reading. |