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1. Indigenous Peoples Of North America

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   Precontact Societies and Environment
   The complexity of precontact societies varied dramatically, ranging from highly stratified, sedentary civilizations in Mesoamerica and the Southwest (such as the Mississippian culture and the Ancestral Puebloans) to semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer bands in the Great Plains and the Arctic.
   Subsistence and Agriculture

2. Mississippi River

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   Cultural and Historical Significance
   The Mississippi River has been central to the cultural identity of the United States, immortalized in literature, most notably by Mark Twain. Indigenous peoples, including the Mississippian culture mound-builders, thrived along its banks for centuries prior to European contact.
   During the American Civil War, Union control of the river was deemed strategically essential under the Anaconda Plan, as it effectively severed the Confederacy by isolating the western stat…