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HOHOKAMS
MOUND BUILDERS
ANASAZIS
HOHOKAMS – PRESENT DAY PHOENIX
Earliest mounds in the United States at Watson Brake near Monroe, LA.
The purpose of these mounds is unclear.
It is believed the are mainly for religious structures used as burial mounds.
Many tribes contributed to this culture stretching from the Gulf of Mexico
to the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys over many years, some back as
far as 2500 BCE.
The Great Serpent Mound- 1348 feet long, three-foot
high prehistoric effigy mound in Ohio. Believed to have been built
Around 1070.
ANASAZIS- SOUTHWEST (NEW MEXICO)
3 GREAT CITIES
Tikal
Copan
Palenque
TEMPLES
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PRIESTS
The highest members of society
Peasant Farmers
Slaves
AN ACADEMIC CIVILIZATION
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