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| | Sample from "Mysteries of the Hopewell" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Indeed, the Hopewell were a special people who, to a greater extent than any of the peoples in eastern North America who preceded them, unlocked the secrets of geometry, developed a sophisticated system of measurement, and even came to understand the great cycles of the sun and moon. |
 | | The Hopewell were wide-ranging in their contacts, with a resource network that reached for hundreds of miles in all directions--north to Lake Superior, south to the Florida Gulf Coast, east to the Carolinas, and west to the Rocky Mountains. |
 | | In the territory that was Hopewell, millions of tons of earth and hundreds of miles of embankments were moved and shaped by generations of people--united across time, in a common goal and a shared vision. |
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