leading citizens. These mounds show not only the skill but the sheer numbers of these builders and the complexity of their social structure‚ their elaborate religious rituals and their trading networks. Another mound culture‚ the Eastern Woodlands owed much of their prominence to farming. These people emerged as premier city builders and their towns spread out for hundreds of miles in every direction from their hub near modern day St Louis. At Cahokia more than 100 flat topped mounds were covered with
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RRT1 Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Which of the following is not one of the theories about how America was originally settled? a.|Humans arrived by boat and followed the coast southward from Alaska.| b.|Siberian hunters crossed from Asia to North American during the last ice age.| c.|Humans arrived in multiple migrations.| d.|Hunters from Asia dispersed themselves over much of North America.| e.|Europeans sailed
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The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern‚ Eastern‚ and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600‚ varying regionally. Composed of series of urban settlements and villages (the largest city being Cahokia) and linked together by a loose trading network. The Mississippians had no writing system or stone architecture. They worked naturally occurring metal deposits‚ such as hammering and annealing copper
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differences in material culture—built large ceremonial mounds‚ and where they buried the families of local elites. Approx. a thousand years after the birth of Christ‚ groups gave way to Mississippi culture—loose communities dispersed along the Mississippi River from Louisiana to Illinois that shared similar technol. And beliefs. Cahokia‚ a ceremonial site in Illinois‚ represented the greatest achievement of the Mississippi peoples. Cahokia once supported a population of almost 20k‚ a city rivaling
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HIS 101 Fall 2013 Quiz 1 (Boyer‚ chapters 1 & 2) Name: _______________________________________________ Multiple Choice: Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1. Why did the Paleo-Indians flourish in the Americas? a. They flourished because of the bountiful and accommodating environment. b. They flourished because of their ability to defeat rival Indian tribes. c. They flourished because of the onset of a new Ice Age. d. They flourished because
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They had a huge impact on modern day through their advancement of the calendar (including leap years)‚ and religious practices that would spread to influence other belief systems in the future. •Cahokia – Cahokia is the area where an ancient city was created during older times. The Cahokia Mounds is one of the largest archaeological sites today‚ which played a huge role in the finding and discovery of many ancient artifacts that could hint to the past. •Hopewell – It was a developmental period
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the two areas‚ yet current genetic studies of the early maize variants in the American Southwest finds that they match those that would have come from a Pacific dispersal‚ (Merrill). The entrance of maize in the Mississippi Valley at the site of Cahokia‚ where storage in holding pits occurred‚ shows to be around 170 B.C.‚ (Riely‚490)‚ and by A.D. 600 long distant trade of furs enabled the diffusion of maize to reach all the way to the subarctic climate of Canada‚ (Boyd). With this slow yet wide spread
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American History Notes Ch.1 * 1000-1200 AD … Cahokia community * Part of the Woodland culture (Missisipian people) * Pop. 10‚000-20‚000 * Gone by the time Europeans come to America * Lived along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers * Lived in houses * Farmers * Traders * Largest civilization in US * Moral Code * Mound builders The great serpant mound is theirs * May have went extinct because of drought‚ locusts
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did Teotihuacán shape the history of Mesoamerica? Q. What kind of influence did Chavín exert in the Andes region? Q. What features of Moche life characterize it as a civilization? Q. In what ways were the histories of the Ancestral Pueblo and the Mound Builders similar to each other‚ and how did they differ? Key Terms Ancestral Pueblo: Formerly known as the Anasazi‚ this people established a mixed agricultural and gathering/hunting society in the southwestern part of North America. (pron. PWAY-blow)
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was life like before? In this presentation I’ll be touching base on what life was like for six major groups of Native American’s. American Indians built a city along the Mississippi River known as the City of Cahokia. It covered more than five square miles and was made of 120 earth mounds‚ or pyramids. It was a commercial and government center whose residents established trade routes through the Mississippi and Ohio River Valley. Other tribes such as the Hopi and Zuni
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