The contemporary Mississippian culture also collapsed during this period.

Columbia was settled in Pre-Columbian times by the mound-building Mississippian culture of Native Americans.

: Not to be confused with the " Mississippian period " describing the dominance of the Mississippian culture.

Category: Mississippian culture

In the five centuries prior to European contact, the Mississippian culture built numerous regional chiefdoms and major earthwork mounds in the Ohio Valley, such as Angel Mounds near Evansville, Indiana, as well as in the Mississippi Valley and the Southeast.

Cultures who built substructure mounds include the Troyville culture, Coles Creek culture, Plaquemine culture and Mississippian cultures.

Category: Mississippian culture

* Mississippian culture disappears.

In the Americas, the Toltec and Mixtec civilizations flourished in central America, along with the Huari Culture of South America and the Mississippian culture of North America.

* The Mississippian culture begins in present day Southern United States

In North America, the Mississippian culture rose at the end of the millennium in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys.

They may have migrated from the north and moved south into Muscogee Creek territory and settled at the sites of mounds built by the Mississippian culture.

During early research, archeologists had mistakenly attributed several Mississippian culture sites to the Cherokee, including Moundville and Etowah Mounds.

The earliest ones of the mid-16th century encountered people of the Mississippian culture, the ancestors to later tribes in the Southeast such as the Creek and Catawba.

In 1730, at Nikwasi, a former Mississippian culture site, a Scots adventurer, Sir Alexander Cumming, crowned Moytoy of Tellico as " Emperor " of the Cherokee.

They were descendants of the Mississippian culture peoples, who built earthwork mounds at their regional chiefdoms located throughout the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries.

The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in the United States before the arrival of Europeans.

The Mississippian culture arose as the cultivation of Mesoamerican crops of corn and beans led to population growth.

The early historic Muscogee were probably descendants of the mound builders of the Mississippian culture along the Tennessee River in modern Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama.

The late Mississippian culture is what the earliest Spanish explorers encountered, beginning on April 2, 1513, with Juan Ponce de León's Florida landing and the 1526 Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón expedition in South Carolina.

The Carboniferous is often treated in North America as two geological periods, the earlier Mississippian and the later Pennsylvanian.

The Mississippian is about twice as long as the Pennsylvanian, but due to the large thickness of coal bearing deposits with Pennsylvanian ages in Europe and North America, the two subperiods were long thought to have been more or less equal.

This sea level drop and the associated unconformity in North America separate the Mississippian subperiod from the Pennsylvanian subperiod.

In the North American system, the Mississippian is subdivided into four stages:

The division between Pennsylvanian and Mississippian comes from North American stratigraphy.

In North America, where the early Carboniferous beds are primarily marine limestones, the Pennsylvanian was in the past treated as a full fledged geologic period between the Mississippian and the Permian.

The Mississippian Indians met Hernando DeSoto when he explored North Mississippi and, traditionally, came through DeSoto County.

A mound similar to others across North Georgia ( including the famous Etowah Indian Mounds ) is located about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) east of Dillard, Georgia and is likely a remnant of an earlier mound-building Native American culture known as the Mississippian culture.

While moats are commonly associated with European castles, they were also developed by North American Indians of the Mississippian culture as the outer defence of some fortified villages.

By the Mississippian Period, 340 million years ago, much of western North America was covered with a warm, shallow sea, much like the Gulf Coast of Florida today.

The painter George Catlin suggested the Mandans were descendants of Madoc and his fellow voyagers in North American Indians ( 1841 ); he found the round Mandan Bull Boat similar to the Welsh coracle, and he thought the advanced architecture of Mandan villages must have been learned from Europeans ( advanced North American societies such as the Mississippian and Hopewell cultures were not well known in Catlin's time ).

Late 20th-century studies showed the mounds were built and occupied by prehistoric indigenous peoples of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture ( a regional variation of the Mississippian culture ) of eastern North America.

This cave, which developed in Mississippian Period limestone, is one of the most extensive cavern systems in North America.

The Fort Ancient culture was influenced by the contemporary Mississippian culture society based along the mid-Mississippi River valley with its North American center at Cahokia ( in present-day Illinois ).

The Mississippian culture had regional chiefdoms as far south as present-day Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as extending to western North Carolina and north to the Great Lakes area.

South Appalachian Mississippian area sites are distributed across a contiguous area including Alabama, Georgia, northern Florida, South Carolina, and central and western North Carolina and Tennessee.

The Mississippian culture peoples had trade with societies as far away as North Carolina, Wisconsin, and the Gulf of Mexico.

Caborn-Welborn was a prehistoric North American culture defined by archaeologists as a Late Mississippian cultural manifestation that grew out of — or built upon the demise of — the Angel chiefdom.

Often associated with mounds and other mortuary complexes across the Eastern Woodlands ( concentrated in the North American Southeast ), step pyramids were constructed as ceremonial centres by the Mississippian cultures ( 900-1500CE ), and are regarded as a facet of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.

Joara was a large Native American settlement, a regional chiefdom of the Mississippian culture, located in what is now Burke County, North Carolina.

The Natchez are noted for being the only Mississippian culture with complex chiefdom characteristics to have survived long into the period after the European colonization of America began.

It contains a Home Demonstration Garden, Vegetable Garden, Herb Garden, Home Fruit and Nuts Garden ( including Black, Persian and Japanese Walnuts, Pecan, Shellbark and Shagbark Hickory, Chinese Chestnut as well as dwarf apple cultivars, an American Persimmon and native Pawpaw trees ), the All America Selection Trials Garden, Perennial Collection, Ground Cover Demonstration, Woody Plant Collection, and a " Walk Across Kentucky " that simulates Kentucky's seven regional landscapes: Bluegrass, Knobs, Appalachian Plateaus, Cumberland Mountains, Mississippian Plateaus and Outer Nashville Basin ( Pennyroyal ), Shawnee Hills, Mississippi Embayment and Alluvial Basin ( Jackson Purchase ).

Like the Mississippian peoples of North America such as the Choctaw and Natchez, the Maya organized themselves into large, agricultural communities.