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Article: Indians created first major urban centers.(North American Culture)(prehistoric settlement Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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Though not as well known as their counterparts in Mexico and the American Southwest, the Indians in the ancient Midwest and South thrived for millennia, as their settlements transformed the untamed wilderness (between 2000 B.C. and A.D. 1600) into a complex political and economic network, often linked by waterways, such as the Missisippi River. From Cahokia in southern Illinois to Poverty Point in northeastern Louisiana, the mound builders, as they came to be called, created the first major urban centers in North America.
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