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Charnel House
A building designed to hold remains of the deceased
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Chunky
An Eastern Woodlands game played with stone disks and Javelins
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Circumscription
Constraint on population growth imposed by surrounding populations of similar type
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Entrada
A Spanish word used to describe an overland expedition
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Oxbow Lake
A lake formed from a segment of a river left isolated when the river changes course
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Phytoliths
Silica grains that form in plant cells
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Palisade
A defensive wall of large posts, also called a stockade
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Swidden
A form of shifting agriculture involving field rotation and long fallow periods
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Woodhenge
A circle of large posts used for astrological study
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What caused the Mississippian polities to arise and grow to critical size?
The addition of Maize to economic systems
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What prevented many local populations from responding to the pressures of population increase by fission and relocating?
Circumscription and a shortage of prime land
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Where did the earliest, and eventually the largest, polities develop?
The American Bottom portion of the Mississippi Valley
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What development came before the secondary versions known as South Appalachian, Plaquemine, and Caddoan Mississippian?
The Middle Mississippian
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What was the largest Middle Mississippian site and what was its population?
Cahokia/ around 6,000
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What are the characteristics of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex?
A set of symbols and artifact types that are found across the variants of Mississippian
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Which Mississippian Version arose in part because of the migration of Siouan-speaking groups from the Midwest?
South Appalachian Mississippian
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What did the Mississippian polities leave behind after their decline in the fifteenth century?
A vacant area at the core of Middle Mississippian territory and thinned population elsewhere in the Midwest
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