Mississippian Culture
What is mound building.
The substance created first by the Olmec and used in the ball game.
What is rubber?
What doesn't burn you makes your stronger!
Stand a little taller!
What is pottery?
What are 3 statues from Assignment 5?
The Roman emperor Caligula loved his horse so much that he game him this government position.
What is senator?
A common design on Mississippian pottery.
What is a swirl?
The semi-religious game passed down by the Olmec to later cultures.
What is the ball game?
A process best done with large machines, or livestock, or a basket if you don't have the others.
What is mound building?
Evidence of Mississippian cultural diffusion and play.
What are the Chunkey stones?
A romantic poet, known as Lord Byron, kept this animal as a pet since his college did not allow dogs.
What is a bear?
This was cleared off in front of mounds for public gatherings and is found at sites around the US.
What are plazas?
An art style popular with the Olmec and later civilizations.
What is relief?
Oh thank goodness we found this carving!
What is a relief?
Structures created to be the home of the elites in Mississippian cultures.
What is 38 minutes.
A game played by Mississippians in which players attempt to strike a rolling stone with a spear.
What is Chunkey?
While the Olmec diffused their culture to the surrounding areas, the best evidence for cultural diffusion comes from these two later cultures.
What are the Mayan and Aztec?
Boing, boing, boing, CRASH!, that can go on my desk now.
What is rubber?
Proof of Olmec religion being passed down to Mayan and Aztec.
What is the feathered serpent?
While the Egyptians were making the pyramids, this now extinct animals still existed on the remote Wrangel Island in Arctic Siberia.
What is the wooly mammoth?
Cahokia is near St. Louis, Missouri. These are other locations that we find traces of Mississippian culture.
What are Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Oklahoma, Illinois, etc.
A god that was passed down from Olmec to Mayans and Aztecs that is pictured as a mythical creature.
What is the feathered serpent?
If you get this one right, I will give you double!
What is trade?
A common design on Mississippian pottery that may symbolize the cycle of life and the afterlife.
What is a swirl?
King Henry the VIII loved his dog so much that he had this made for them.