FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA
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because temples and houses for the chiefs were on top of them.
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because the horses stood by the mounds.
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because Native Americans worshiped the mounds after they built them.
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because the mounds were really high up.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mounds were typically flat-topped earthen pyramids used as platforms for religious buildings, residences of leaders and priests, and locations for public rituals. In some societies, honored individuals were also buried in mounds.
Detailed explanation-2: -Regardless of the particular age, form, or function of individual mounds, all had deep meaning for the people who built them. Many earthen mounds were regarded by various American Indian groups as symbols of Mother Earth, the giver of life. Such mounds thus represent the womb from which humanity had emerged.
Detailed explanation-3: -Their mounds were for burial and were larger than the Adena. The mounds were also in various geometric shapes, such as squares, rectangles, and octagons. They were also surrounded by one or two rings of mounds. They also built ceremonial mounds in the shape of animals.