Mississippian culture

Mississippian culture appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Eastern Woodlands (North America) from c. 800 to 1600 CE, a span of 800 years. Its people spoke Unknown or undeciphered languages (Indus, Minoan, Moche, Nazca, Chavin, Jomon and other unattested languages).

Maize-farming chiefdoms of the Mississippi valley and Southeast who built platform mounds around plazas. Drought, warfare and then European diseases broke them up.

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Facts

Dates

c. 800 to 1600 CE

Duration

800 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Eastern Woodlands, North America

Language family

Unknown or undeciphered

Came from

• Woodland period cultures c. 1000 BCE to 1000 CE

Events in North America during its time

• 985 Erik the Red settles Greenland
• 1000 Norse reach Vinland
• 1050 Cahokia grows into a city
• 1276 The Great Drought
• 1497 John Cabot reaches Newfoundland
• 1540 De Soto and Coronado expeditions

Neighbours in North America

• New France 1534 to 1763 CE
• Norse Greenland c. 985 to 1450 CE
• Vinland (L'Anse aux Meadows) c. 1000 to 1020 CE
• Spanish Florida 1565 to 1821 CE
• Santa Fe de Nuevo México 1598 to 1821 CE
• Roanoke Colony 1585 to 1590 CE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Republic of Venice c. 697 to 1797 CE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Middle East
• Swahili city-states c. 800 to 1700 CE, Central and Southern Africa
• Ghana Empire (Wagadu) c. 300 to 1200 CE, North and West Africa
• Holy Roman Empire 962 to 1806 CE, Europe
• Kingdom of Aksum c. 100 to 940 CE, North and West Africa
• Srivijaya c. 650 to 1377 CE, Southeast Asia
• Ethiopian Empire (Solomonic dynasty) 1270 to 1974 CE, North and West Africa
• Moche (Mochica) c. 100 to 800 CE, South America

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