The_Mound_Builders

The Mound Builders The Mound Builders As American expanded west of the Mississippi contact was made with many Native American tribes. One tribe known as the mound builders populated over one third of the United States. The size of the empire made a capital city seem unlikely so instead of a central city the capital was kind of divided into three regional centers located across the middle of the United States. One of these regional centers known as Spiro was located in Oklahoma near the Arkansas River. There the river provided fertile ground, transportation, and an extremely reliable source of water. The fruits of the river made the mid-sized community a center for trade and commerce. The centers wealth was distributed among the natives making it a rich area by Mound Builder standards. The mid-sized community yielded some pretty impressive mounds but one in particular was a burial mound. Known as Craig Mound the series of three humps concealed more than two thousand bodies. All of which were buried with their valuables making it ver notorious among grave robbing thieves. The second regional center known as Cahokia was the largest of the three. At one time the mound, mounds, people, one, community, wall, two, known, three, though, river, made, centers, cahokia, builders, trade, today, regional, natives, located, hundred, ground, great, city, burial, american, worked, water, viewed, very, united, tribes, together, time, thousand