The passing of power from heads of families and clans to the ruling elite took place as agricultural societies replaced horticultural and pastoral societies.

That statement is true

Explanation:

This happen because personal belongings have no value in horticultural and pastoral societies, but it has a lot of value in agricultural societies.

Unlike the previous societies, People in agricultural societies understand the value of owning large number of lands for themselves would give them more security/comfort for their own survival. Because of this, they developed a practice to pass power and ownership of the land to their families and a small group of ruling elite in order to maintain the upper hand within the society.

the economic difference between the three colonial regions. shipbuilding, whaling, fishing, and trapping where also main factors to the economy. the southern regional colonies economy was based on sugarcane, rice, cotton, tobacco, and indigo.