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Mound Builders

Agricultural based societies also existed in eastern North America. Hopewell


Lived along the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri River valleys. Agriculture and trade. Build large burial mounds to honor dead. Declined about 700 A.D.

Mound Builders
Mississippian civilization began to thrive after Hopewell declined.
Skilled farmers and traders Largest city Cahokia (near present day Louis, MO) Built hundreds of mounds. St.

Mound Building societies no longer existed by the early 1700s.

Monks Mound Collinsville, Illinois

Great Serpent Mound Adams County, Ohio

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