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The Mississippian civilization was an urban civilization that flourished in eastern North America approximately between the years 900 and 1400. Cities have been found in the Mississippi and Ohio river basin. The cities generally consist of large earth mounds. Cahokia, in modern-day Illinois near the Mississippi River, was the largest of these cities. Serpent Mound in Ohio is another well-known site. This is a very long earth mound that, when viewed from the air, depicts a snake eating an egg. The civilization engaged in trade with surrounding peoples as far away as the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic coast. In the early 1400s, before the arrival of Europeans, the civilization mysteriously vanished. The cities were abandoned, and the people returned to a tribal way of life.The Mississippian culture was the only known pre-Columbian society north of Mexico that is universally classified as an urban civilization. Other cultures, such as the Anasazi and PuebloFor the town in Colorado, see Pueblo, Colorado Pueblos are traditional Native American communities of the Southwest. Though some pueblos have few standing adobe buildings, the commuities are recognized worldwide for adobe buildings, which are also sometim cultures of the southwest, are occasionally classified this way.
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