Foraging Societies

Settled Agriculture

Primary Urbanization

Age of Empires

• USA

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Foraging Societies: 12,000 to 3,000 BC

• 12,000 to 8,000 BC: Ice Age Foraging Peoples
• 8,000 to 6,000 BC: Early Archaic Period
• 6,000 to 3,000 BC: Middle Archaic Period

Settled Agricultural Societies: 3,000 BC to AD 700

• 3,000 to 500 BC: Late Archaic Period
• 1500 to 700 BC: Poverty Point Culture
• 500 BC to AD 400: Adena-Hopewell Cultures
  • 500 to 100 BC: Adena culture
  • 200 BC to AD 400: Hopewell Culture

Urban Society: 700 to 1997

• 700 to 1731: Mississippian Culture
• 700 to 1250: Cahokia

Age of Empires: 1500  to present

• 1513 to 1543: Spanish invasion
• 1550 to 1731: Postcontact survivals
• 1731: French defeat Natchez
• 1776-present: The United States of America

Based on: Lynda Norene Shaffer, Native Americans Before 1492: The Moundbuilding Centers of the Eastern Woodlands (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992) p. 6.

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