Do you think that the Mississippian developed into a fully fledged civilization like those of Egypt or China?

Question

State your reasons

Answer 1

Do you mean Mesopotamian? and the answer is yes.

Answer 2

The Mississippians did have a developed civilization.  They had a central religion (the worship of the sun). There is evidence the Mississippian civilization was large. They lived in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas,  Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The towns were thriving and there is also evidence that the Mississippians  traded with each other as well as other cultures.  Items found at grave sites( obsidian from the Black hills, silver ornaments from Mexico) prove there was a trading network.  Like most cultures of the time religion was the foundation of the Mississippian culture.  The Mississippian civilization most likely ended due to crop failure, disease or both.  

    The difference is the Mississippian civilization did not survive like the the civilizations in Egypt or China.  But this does not mean they did not have a developed civilization.

Answer 3

Yes. The northern tribes along the major rivers formed a city archeologists call Cahokia. Check it out.

Answer 4

They maintained a more primitive culture.  No, I think they were too warlike and it kept them back.  Just like some areas of the world today that are hindered by violence. Maybe, in the old world people would war and take slaves but I think that with the America's wars the enemy was just wiped out.  Good question.

Answer 5

I suppose that it would depend on what a "fully fledged civilization" means.  What I have read is that the Mississippian was very much derived for Mesoamerican civilizations.

Had Europeans never exploited the New World, the Mississippian might well have become a completely independent base of civilization (although know human nature, having and unending series of wasr with Mesoamerica).

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Answer 6

I really don't think so, only because there is so little evidence of a large civilization. For some past cultures, it wasn't a goal to build. and build bigger, as with Egypt or parts of China. Still, there is no evidence to suggest that Mississippians were probably large in number. And they were very dispersed - to the point that lack of contact prohibited a central governing body. Therefore, building projects and monuments were all done on a relatively small scale and were few.

Answer 7

I think it's possible but it would be premature to rule one way or the other.  If they didn't, I think that given enough time they would have