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	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In a technical sense, a civilization is a complex society in which many of the people live in cities and get their food from agriculture, as distinguished from band and tribal societies in which people live in small settlements or nomadic groups and make their subsistence by foraging, hunting, or working small horticultural gardens.
		Civilizations can be distinguished from one another in several ways, and the number of distinct civilizations, their duration, and extent, are the subject of some debate.
		The degree to which Aegean civilization is autochthonous, having emerged from the culture of Old Europe, or is derived from Afroasiatic cultures of Egypt and the Levant is subject to debate.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Civilization (3446 words)

	Mississippian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Mississippian is a geologic (sub)Period lasting from roughly 360 million years before the present to 325 million years before the present.
		In Europe, the Mississippian and Pennsylvanian are one more or less continuous sequence of lowland continental deposits and are lumped together as the Carboniferous Period.
		The Mississippian civilization was a medieval North American culture.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/m/mi/mississippian.html (144 words)

	Seeking Wisdom and Doing Justice
		Civilizations are nothing more or less than the product of our efforts to achieve definite spiritual ends under definite material conditions, by means of definite social structures, and cannot be properly understood without reference to all three types of factors.
		Axial civilizations, on the other hand are founded on an effort to resolve just such disharmonies: human finitude, sin, attachment, etc. Modern civilizations reduce these disharmonies to technical or structural problems and claim to be able to resolve them by means of science and technology (including the social sciences and political technologies).
		The current situation is not so much a clash of civilizations as it is a clash between the forces of civilization, the popular front of all of humanity’s wisdom traditions, and the enemies of civilization, both secular and fundamentalist, and ultimately capitalist.
	seekingwisdom.com /mansueto.htm (11739 words)

	Virtual Tour of Ocmulgee Mounds
		The Mississippians are also known as the Mound Builders, due to the enormous flat-topped temple mounds they constructed in the centers of their large, well-organized cities.
		The Mississippians at Ocmulgee displaced the previous inhabitants of the region known as the Woodland Indians.
		Mississippian farmers usually cultivated their fields in areas near rivers, so the traces of this field away from the river are something of a mystery.
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~dvess/ids/amtours/ocmulgee400X200/400X200S/ocmwciv.htm (1454 words)

	MYSTIQUE
		The largest Mississippian city was Cahokia, in present-day Illinois.
		The Mississippian people adopted many customs from the Indians of what is now Mexico, with whom they may have traded.
		The Mississippian civilization continued to grow until the 1500's, when diseases brought by the European explorers killed many of the people.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Atrium/8753/Mystique/Cahokia.html (313 words)

	The Irish Empire
		The unfortunate attempt by the Emperor Justinian to send an exarch to the island to collect taxes caused the last "Roman governor" of the island (by then, the office was hereditary to the ruler of the Rodillanegran Pale) to declare himself High King in the sixth century.
		The survival of literary culture in Ireland was vital to the restoration of civilization in western Europe.
		As it is, civilization seems to have been preserved by a suspension of the laws of nature.
	pages.prodigy.net /aesir/irish.htm (2800 words)

	History of Minnesota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Within a few hundred years, the Mississippian culture reached into the southeast portion of the state, and large villages were formed.
		Many of the earliest major villages were part of the Mississippian civilization, though that society came apart long before Europeans came into the area.
		When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, governor Alexander Ramsey was in Washington.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Minnesota (4371 words)

	Mississipian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mississippian culture lasted from about 700 until the 1700's, even after the arrival of the Europeans.
		By Min K. Much of the Mississippian's art came from the Adena-Hopewell cultures, which had well furnished burials under large mounds, mostly in Wisconsin, Illinois, and especially Ohio.
		Mississippians used bone for many of their activities.
	www.avoca.k12.il.us /os/mariemurphy/moundbuilders/mississippian.html (1179 words)

	Digital History
		These are all images of different ancient ruins (or graphic replicas) of ancient civilizations in the Americas.
		The era between A.D. 1000 and 1600 during is known as the Mississippian period.
		To explore Cahokia is to re-experience the wonder of a vanished civilization and way of life.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /learning_history/1492/1492_cahokia.cfm (375 words)

	Ancient Mysteries: The Secret Mounds of Pre-Historic America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "mounds" built by this ancient civilization spread across North America, from the east coast to the valleys of the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
		Variously plundered and ignored over the years since, the mounds have most recently attracted attention from archaeologists who are systematically reconstructing the culture of the "mound builders".
		The material could be used with younger students; it would be a welcome ‘fresh’ civilization to study.
	www.fox8.com.au /649.htm (1057 words)

	White Dove's Native American Indian Site Creek (Muskogee)
		Anthropological evidence points to the Mississippian civilization as the source of Muskogee life and culture.
		When Hernando de Soto encountered it on his inland expedition in search of treasure in 1539, the Mississippian culture was already in decline, and it quickly collapsed as war and disease killed some 90 percent of the population.
		The ensuing Creek Civil War (1813-14) set twenty-five hundred Red Sticks against a combined force of fifteen thousand Indians and Americans under the command of Andrew Jackson.
	users.multipro.com /whitedove/encyclopedia/creek-muskogee.html (2334 words)

	Review -- Guns, Germs, and Steel
		Europe was a set of chronically divided states with easy communication between them, so although a particular state could reject a technology, if it was useful, other states would adopt it and the state would be forced to adopt it (either as a defensive technique or as a result of defeat).
		The Americas, which had eventually domesticated a somewhat daunting percursor to corn, was still limited to foot power (and infantry), had no resistance to Eurasian animal and epidemic diseases, with isolated civilizations, and none of whose populations were literate, which barrier to communication limited the pace of invention.
		Australia was limited to hunting and gathering (except in one tribe on the eastern coast which had eel farms) due to a complete lack of domesticable plants and animals.
	www.physics.ohio-state.edu /~prewett/writings/BookReviews/GunsGermsAndSteel.html (2171 words)

	Georgia's Ancient Indian City - Etowah Indian Mounds
		The north Georgia city Hernando De Soto rode into in 1540, now known as Cartersville's Etowah Indian Mounds, is one of the best examples of a Mississippian Period town in existence.
		These statues are two of the finest examples of Mississippian Period stone carving in existence and came from one of the 350 burials studied from this mound.
		They were well traveled and had trade agreements with Mississippian Period cities from as far north and west as today's Wisconsin and New Orleans.
	notatlanta.org /indian_city.html (853 words)

	Effigy mound culture
		Cahokia was a northern outpost of the Mississippian culture that thrived further down the Mississippi.
		Now Aztalan is considered an offshoot of the powerful Mississippian civilization at Cahokia.
		Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is in Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Mo. Cahokia was an outpost of Mississippian civilization further down the big river.
	whyfiles.org /135salv_arch/3.html (753 words)

	The Fall of Great Cahokia » The Anthropik Network
		In that report, Vail noted that "Chacoan and Mississipian civilizations tend to be overlooked when studying the processes of state formation and possibilities for modes of political organization." I'm happy to report that Cahokia is much better.
		Though the site was first settled around 650 CE, it was not until 1050 CE that we not only see the first mound activity, but a sudden leap in population from around 1,000 to 10,000 to 15,000--and with it, a sudden explosion in complexity.
		I find this possibility fascinating: Chacoan and Mississipian civilizations tend to be overlooked when studying the processes of state formation and possibilities for modes of political organization.
	anthropik.com /2005/10/the-fall-of-great-cahokia (1812 words)

	Native American (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Most surprisingly, those studies provide evidence of smaller-scale, contemporaneous human migration from Europe, possibly by European peoples who had adopted a lifestyle resembling that of Inuits and Yupiks during the last ice age.
		In the late nineteenth century reformers in efforts to civilize Indians adapted the practice of educating native children in Indian Boarding Schools.
		These schools, which were primarily run by Christians [1], proved traumatic to Indian children who were forbidden to speak their native languages, taught Christianity instead of their native religions, and in numerous other ways forced to abandon their Indian identity[1] and adopt European-American culture.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/n/na/native_american.html (3204 words)

	Natchez Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The last remnants of the Mississippians (see Cahokia Illinois) whose empire had stretched across the central and south central U.S. were living in Natchez when the French arrived.
		The Mississippians did not have a written language and so this one encounter with French explorers is very important to our understanding of their culture.
		The French retaliated with force in kind and so extermiated the last of the Mississippian civilization.
	users.stlcc.edu /jangert/natchez/natchez.html (1286 words)

	St. Louis, MO - St. Louis History
		And before the European explorers traveled down the great river, this rich land was home to the Mississippians, a mighty Indian civilization of mound builders where more than 20,000 people lived in the fertile river valley.
		Abolitionists shared the streets with slaveholders and the Dred Scott trials - which began at the Old Courthouse downtown - led the nation to Civil War through their eventual outcome in the Supreme Court of the United States denying citizenship and rights to slaves.
		The area's Civil War connections can be explored in more depth today at White Haven, the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, and at the Jefferson Barracks Historic Park where Grant served with other soldiers, including Robert E. Lee, prior to the war.
	www.explorestlouis.com /bidBook/history.asp (1439 words)

	Prehistoric American Indians of St. Louis
		For example, the atlatl (spear thrower) appeared in the Early Archaic tradition; the manufacture of pottery was first used in the Early Woodland; the use of the bow/arrow appeared in the tradition of the Late Woodland; complex societies with "temple" mounds, large scale agriculture, and shell tempered pottery marked the Mississippian period.
		Although Paleo-Indian thru Mississippian are found in the St. Louis area, the tribes (i.e.
		Either these tribes regressed to that level as the result of collapse of the Mississippian civilization or they never achieved that development.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mo/county/stlouis/native/prehist.htm (756 words)

	Shirts N' Skins
		Their civilization is said to have endured for 2000 years, reaching its Zenith in 7th to 10th Century AD in Copan in Honduras.
		To be sure, the characteristics that defined those civilizations radiated out from those centers to varying degrees, diminishing somewhat as they got further and further from their source.
		The fact that the whole continent was not civilized to the point of urbanization is easily understood by the vast distances and natural geo-physical boundaries found on the continents.
	www.anoliscircle.com /shirtsnskins.html (18965 words)

	Canku Ota - August 14, 2004 - A Mississippi Mound Mystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As we began our tour by climbing Cahokia's biggest mound — a tiered pyramid known as Monks Mound for a group of Trappist monks who built a monastery nearby in the early 1800s — Pauketat filled us in on the basics of what is known about the city and its people.
		At its apex, the city had between 10,000 and 15,000 residents, with the regional population, including parts of St. Louis and East St. Louis, estimated to have been 30,000 to 40,000.
		Almost as baffling as Cahokia's rocket-like ascent and Icarus-like fall is the fact that many Americans have never heard of Cahokia and the Mississippian civilization.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues04/Co08142004/CO_08142004_CahokiaMystery.htm (1612 words)

	Ten Most Endangered
		History: Attendance at the school is documented prior to the Civil War.
		Excellent stratigraphy and organic preservation make Chucalissa significant today as the most extensive and intact record on Mississippian civilization in the area, showing the development, fluorescence, and decline of the culture.
		The first depot was built in the decade before the Civil War at the junction of the first rail line and an existing stage coach road.
	www.tennesseepreservationtrust.org /2001tenmost.html (700 words)

	Bridging World History: Audio Glossary: Unit 10: Connections Across Water
		Mississippian urban civilization active from 900 to 1400 CE with large mounds in the shapes of animals like snakes.
		Cult of a god-king in southeast Asia derived from Hinduism.
		Of or relating to early civilization in Indus valley.
	www.learner.org /channel/courses/worldhistory/unit_glossary_10.html (262 words)

	cornceu1
		All of the high civilizations that arose in North and South America planted corn as their principal crop.
		They came after the Mississippian civilization collasped from depopulation by European diseases introduced in 1540 by the DeSoto expedition.
		Corn gave Mississippian rulers the energy and populations necessary to build large cities such as Cahokia (IL), Chucalissa (TN) and St Louis (MO).
	www-aes.tamu.edu /ipmshow/corn/09.htm (484 words)

	Who were the Mound-Builders?
		Most people are aware of the great civilizations of Egypt and Mexico, but few, even American Indians themselves, realize there were great civilizations in North America as well.
		The civilizations that flourished here were spectacular in their own right and are known as the Mound-Builders incorrectly.
		The hight of American Romanticism with the Mound Cultures peaked in the 19th century and it is at this time that Congress, in deciding on grants to the Bureau of Ethnology (today known as the Smithsonian Institute) decided that the question of who had built the mounds should be settled once and for all.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/memorial/68/mound1.html (1028 words)

	links
		The cultural environment of the American Bottom also was right for the appearance of the Mississippian civilization.
		Rise Of The Human Race The Civilizations Of The Ancient Near East Paleoanthropologists estimate that between three and four million years ago, ancestors of the human race appeared on earth, naked in a world of enemies.
		Western civilization prides itself on its historic march of progress, of the vast array of knowledge accumulated over the centuries.
	goglobal.freeservers.com /linksoci.html (1665 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Eternity Road
		Although the archeology may be lacking, the discovery of the past is the impetus for the entire novel.
		The Mississippian civilization of Illyria exists in a post-apocalyptic world in which civilization is just beginning to raise its head.
		Although Illyrian society is not fully described by McDevitt, its most salient point for the purposes of the novel is the existence of the Imperium, a Medieval style college which tries to understand the artefacts left behind by the previous "Roadmaker" civilization.
	www.sfsite.com /09a/etern16.htm (693 words)

	Search Results for mound - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Exhibit featuring the 'Plan of the Ancient Works at Marietta, Ohio,' sketched in 1837 by Charles Whittlesey, geologist, and engineer, depicting Mound Builders, ancient Indian culture of the east-central area of North America, presented by the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Also provides a historical background.
		History of the Mississippian civilization and its architecture.
		Summarizes the interpretations of later civilizations, from the earliest European explorers to more recent archaeologists.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=mound&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (491 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003065443 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ancient capital of Cahokia and a series of lesser population centers developed in the Mississippi valley in North America between the eighth and fifteenth centuries AD, leaving behind an extraordinarily rich archaeological record.
		Cahokia's gigantic pyramids, finely crafted artifacts, and dense population mark it as the founding city of the Mississippian civilization, formerly known as the 'mound' builders.
		In this important new survey, Timothy Pauketat outlines the development of Mississippian civilization, presenting a wealth of archaeological evidence and advancing our understanding of the American Indians whose influence extended into the founding moments of the United States and lives on today in American archaeology.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cam041/2003065443.html (193 words)

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