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Landmark Americas religious

Spiro Mounds

800 CE – 1450 CE · 650 years

Mississippian ceremonial mound complex in Oklahoma that yielded one of the richest caches of pre-Columbian religious art north of Mexico.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–700 CE)
  2. Eastern North American hunter-gatherers (800 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1500 CE)
  5. Osage (1530 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Luisiana (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. United States (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. United States of America (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. United States (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 800 CE and 1450 CE.

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