Which risk increased when pre-Columbian societies relied upon maizemaking earthenware ovens?

💡 Explanation

Increased reliance resulted in concentrated agriculture, intensifying vulnerability to crop failure; monoculture creates instability in yields because a single disease outbreak can devastate the primary food source, rather than diversified crops buffering losses.

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