Compare and contrast the political institutions/policies that have organized life in California across three of the following four periods of California history political institutions or policies that have organized life in California across three of the following four periods of California history.

Compare and contrast the

1) economies,

2) social structures, and/

or

3) political institutions/policies that have organized life in California across three of the following four periods of California history:

1) Pre-Columbian California (circa 40,000 BCE – 1542 CE);

2) Spanish California (1542-1821);

3) Mexican California (1821-1848);