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Mound Builders -- Adena, Hopewell, and Cahokia

Time Period:
 * Adena- 1000 B.C. to approximately 1 A.D
 * Hopewell- 200 B.C. to AD 500
 * Cahokia- A.D. 1050 to 1300

Location:
 * Adena- The Ohio River
 * Hopewell- Started in western New York
 * Cahokia- St. Clair County, Illinois

Government:
 * Adena- Eastern Woodlands
 * Hopewell- Eastern Woodlands
 * Cahokia- Eastern Woodlands

Everyday Life:
 * Adena- Hunters, farmers, and gatherers.
 * Hopewell- hunting and fishing; collecting wild plants, especially nuts; and raising seed crops such as knotweed, goosefoot, little barley, and maygrass. They may also have grown some corn
 * Cahokia- Built by Mississippian Indians between 600 and 1300 AD, Cahokia was the largest prehistoric city in all of what became the United States. Cahokia was a melting pot of Indian groups. The city included large fields of corn, wooden houses for thousands of people, grand open plazas, and about 120 earthen mounds.

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Questions:
 * What year's were the Adena in place? 1000 BC to about 1 AD
 * What was the Adena daily life? Hunters, farmers, and gatherers
 * Where were the Hopewell started in? western New York
 * Where was the location of the Cahokia? St. Clair County, Illinois
 * What was the government of the Hopewell? Easternwoodlands

Works Cited:
 * http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2536600088.html
 * http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CA008.html
 * http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_were_the_Hopewell_Indians_located
 * http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/271480/Hopewell-culture
 * http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/NorthAmerica/Adena.html
 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march/12/cahokia.htm
 * http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=700
 * http://www.touring-ohio.com/history/adena-culture.html
 * http://wikitravel.org/en/Cahokia_Mounds_State_Historic_Site#b
 * http://www.google.com/search?q=Cahokia+mounds&tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&gbv=2&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2093l6979l0l7701l15l15l0l6l6l0l213l1235l4.4.1l9l0&oq=Cahokia+mounds&aq=f&aqi=&aql=