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

* Mississippian culture flourishes in North America.

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 Alibamu and the Coushatta, who lived on the opposite side the river, were descended from the Mississippian culture, which had built massive earthwork mounds as part of their society about 950 – 1250 AD.

Approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, the Mississippi River Delta was populated by tribes of the Mississippian culture, a mound-building Native American people that had developed in the late Woodland Indian period.

Mound building had started earlier, before the Common Era, but Mississippian sites were located throughout the Lower Mississippian Valley and the tributaries of the river, as along the Ohio River.

Prior to the French Canadian settlers, indigenous peoples known as the Mississippian culture and earlier cultures had been living in the region for more than a thousand years.

For instance, the Mississippian culture, reaching a peak about 1150 at Cahokia in present-day Illinois, had sites throughout the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys, and into the Southeast.

They are effigy and geometric mounds, different from the platform mounds at nearby Aztalan State Park, built by peoples of the Mississippian culture, which reached its peak about 1300 CE, had settlements throughout the Mississippi Valley and its tributaries, extending from central Illinois northward to the Great Lakes and also to the Southeastern United States.

Bilbo had taken revenge by voting against the fellow Mississippian.

The chief center of a Middle Mississippian settlement is at Cahokia, in present-day Illinois, a city that at its peak had 20, 000-30, 000 people.

These tribes and earlier peoples, collectively known as the Mississippian culture, had long used the Trace for trade, so they likely used it with the Europeans.

Early ferns had developed by the Mississippian, conifers by the Pennsylvanian.

By 800 CE this society had begun to coalesce into the Caddoan Mississippian culture.

The local Mississippian culture, described by Hernando de Soto in 1540, had completely disappeared by 1560.

During what archaeologists call the Mississippian period ( c. 1000 – 1600 A. D .), East Tennessee's Native American inhabitants were living in complex agrarian societies at places such as Toqua and Hiwassee Island, and had formed a minor chiefdom known as Chiaha in the French Broad Valley.

These visitors ( Mound Builders of the Mississippian period ) came from permanent villages which had successfully implemented agriculture near the rich river bottomlands.

The area saw sporadic occupation during the Woodland and Mississippian periods, although the population had dwindled considerably by the 17th century.

This site is the most northeastern of the Mississippian culture, which had sites throughout the river valleys of the Mississippi and its tributaries, such as the Ohio River.

Although some areas continued an essentially Middle Mississippian culture until the first significant contact with Europeans, the population of most areas had dispersed or were experiencing severe social stress by 1500.

By the late 1960s archaeological investigations had shown the similarity of the culture which produced the pottery and the midwestern Mississippian pattern defined by the Midwestern Taxonomic System in 1937.

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

As in most other Mississippian chiefdoms, the community of Wickliffe had a social hierarchy ruled by a hereditary chief.

Construction of Monks Mound by the Mississippian culture began about 900 – 950 CE, on a site which had already been occupied by buildings.

It had several regional variants including the Middle Mississippian culture of Cahokia, the South Appalachian Mississippian variant at Moundville and Etowah, the Plaquemine Mississippian variant in south Louisiana and Mississippi, and the Caddoan Mississippian culture of northwestern Louisiana, eastern Texas, and southwestern Arkansas.