The Mississippian Culture: Mounds, Moons, and Forgotten Cities
The Mississippian Culture: Mounds, Moons, and Forgotten Cities
Blog Article
Long before Columbus,
before Jamestown,
before the Founding Fathers —
there was Cahokia.
The Mississippian culture thrived in North America from 800 to 1600 CE,
spreading from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
And at its heart stood a city larger than medieval London.
Cahokia.
A city of mounds, plazas, and wooden temples.
A spiritual, political, and trading center built by Native Americans —
without iron, wheels, or written language.
Its centerpiece, Monk’s Mound,
still stands in Illinois —
100 feet high, layered with soil and mystery.
I opened 온라인카지노 while scrolling through satellite images of ancient mounds.
Even from the sky, they whisper of precision, purpose, and power.
The Mississippians tracked the moon, the sun, the seasons.
They built Woodhenge, aligned with solstices.
They farmed maize.
Crafted shell jewelry.
Traded obsidian and copper across the continent.
But by 1400, something shifted.
Cahokia was abandoned.
No written record tells us why.
Disease? Climate? Internal collapse?
Through 우리카지노, I posted a photo of a reconstructed thatched house beside the mounds,
captioned: “America before it was America.”
The Mississippian culture reminds us:
Advanced civilization is not always made of stone.
Sometimes it’s built in silence —
and still echoes in the land.