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This 3 page paper discusses the Hopewell and Mississippian cultures with regard to what they traded and what part trade played in their economies. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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culture as a whole was "based on a sophisticated way of life that combined gathering and hunting with the cultivation of a few crops" (Faragher et al 15). The Woodland
culture, in common with many native cultures, cultivated maize (Faragher et al). Both cultures were located in the Mississippi Valley (Faragher et al). The Hopewell culture was named for the
farm on which it was discovered ("About North Georgia"). It preceded the Mississippian culture by several hundred years (Faragher et al). The Hopewell culture was a mortuary culture, "in which
the dead were honored through ceremony, display, and the construction of enormous and elaborate burial mounds" (Faragher et al 15). (This is why these cultures are often referred to as
mound builders.) The Hopewell culture, because of its funerary tradition, "mobilized an elaborate trade network that acquired obsidian from the Rocky Mountains, copper from the Great Lakes, mica from
the Appalachians, and shells from the Gulf coast. Hopewell artisans converted these materials into distinctive and artistically sophisticated goods that played an important role in Hopewell trade and were buried
with the dead in Hopewell graves" (Faragher et al 15). Faragher doesnt say what the Hopewell culture traded in return for the materials it used in its funerary cult, but
its reasonable to assume that it was maize or other agricultural produce. The Hopewell culture collapsed in approximately the 5th century, though the reason for the failure is not known.
After the Hopewell culture disappeared, however, there were several innovations in the East, including the introduction of the bow and arrow, which greatly enhanced hunting; in addition, "between 450 and
800, maize farming spread widely in the east" (Faragher et al 15). In addition, the Indians had developed a new variety of maize which they called "Northern Flint," that had
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