Land of Vital Blood: Pre-Columbian America
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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What Is Mississippian Civilization?
This mississippian society started to decline after about 14 hundred. They seem to have had a sun centred religion. Person's a position in society was determined by the status of their mother. There there are sites where it seems as if human sacrifices were buried. We can see walled cities with temple mounds still standing in places like georgia and alabama at the time when the spanish explorer hernando de soto went through those areas. The people were tino, and some of them form sort of small urban confederations and small kingdoms in hispaniola, cuba and other caribbean islands. These tino people used a complicated layering of
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