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Mississippi is the main waterway of the United States, around which the core of the future state was formed. More than 2000 years ago, there was the birth of agriculture in the Mississippi River Valley. The river was teeming with fish and migratory waterfowl. In the forests, one could harvest wood and hunt. There was a white-tailed deer, the main source of meat. The river allowed the transport of goods in different directions and conducting lively trade.
The greatest attention of archaeologists is attracted to the city of Cahokia, which arose about 600 on the opposite bank of the Mississippi from St. Louis. The population was estimated to reach 40 thousand people, that is, it was the largest city in the United States until the 1780s.
The Mississippians apparently did not have a single state. They lived as weakly interconnected sociopolitical groups, each of which most likely had its own leader. At the same time, they may had felt some kind of cultural and linguistic unity.
In the 15th century the city was abandoned for some reason, and Europeans arriving in the 14th century on the shores of the Mississippi found more primitive cultures there, the bearers of which were already other ethnic groups - Cherokee, Cree, etc. The question of whether they can be considered descendants of the builders of mounds or they came from neighboring areas and destroyed (assimilated) the Mississippians, remains open.
The first of Europeans who came to Mississippi was the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. The first map of the river and its tributaries was made by French travelers who founded New Orleans. Then the lands near the mouth of the Mississippi were sold to Great Britain, and after the War of Independence a new - American - civilization was established here.
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