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[edit]The Willoughby Disc from Moundville, Alabama Depiction of Cahokia Copper headdress found at Upper Bluff Lake, Illinois Citico Gorget from the Coosa Paramountcy in the Appalachian Mountains | |
| Period Overview | |
|---|---|
| Dates | c. AD 1000-c. AD 1600 [1][2] |
| Core Regions | the American South, Midwestern United States |
| Major Milestones | |
| Key centers | Cahokia, Moundville, Etowah, Holy Bluff, Angel Mounds, Kincaid Mounds, Nashville |
| Major movements | Datura ritualism, Corn-Mother movement, Rise of the Southeastern Longbow |
| Notable events | Medieval Warm Period, Cahokian Big Bang, Little Ice Age Cofitachequi-Ocute War |
| Intellectual Achievements | |
| Mathematics | Algebra, Spherical trigonometry, Arabic numerals |
| Medicine | The Canon of Medicine, discovery of pulmonary circulation, Ophthalmology |
| Astronomy | Astrolabe refinement, Maragheh observatory |
| Physics | Book of Optics, Hydrostatics |
| End of Era | |
| Key factors | De Soto Expedition, European colonization of North America, Iroquois Slave Raids |
| Part of a series on the History of Islam | |