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Mississippian Influence On American Culture
The Mississippian culture was the concluding prehistoric ethnic development that took place in North American, enduring from approximately 700 AD to the period of the arrival of the first European travelers. This culture extended over a boundless vicinity of the Southeast as well as the mid-continent. The aforementioned was constructed on concentrated agriculture of squash, corn, beans, and other crops, which occasioned in large attentiveness of inhabitants in metropolises alongside riverine bottomlands. The Mississippian people were experiences craftsmen which were equipped to crop a diversity of characteristic pottery, several which were painted. Additionally was an industrialized widespread of bone, stone, and shell relics which were utilized

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