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Moundville
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03/22/18 09:18 PM
03/22/18 09:18 PM
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Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 63,686 Luverne, AL
Skinny
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Today was an absolutely beautiful day to be at Moundville. If any of ya'll are near there I suggest ya'll roll in to hang out at the place for a while. It will do you some good to think about how things were in Alabama around AD 1200. I took a load of students there for the day and we had a great time, the weather was perfect and the kids learned a lot.
Never Trust Government
"You can be broke but you cant be poor." Ruthie-May Webster
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Re: Moundville
[Re: Skinny]
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03/22/18 09:24 PM
03/22/18 09:24 PM
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Posts: 25,736 Fayetteville TN Via Selma
jawbone
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I love going there and do like you say and imagine what it was like for them but my mind just keeps asking how many Indians did it take to keep the grass cut like it is in 1200AD?
Lord, please help us get our nation straightened out.
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Re: Moundville
[Re: jawbone]
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03/22/18 09:27 PM
03/22/18 09:27 PM
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Skinny
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I love going there and do like you say and imagine what it was like for them but my mind just keeps asking how many Indians did it take to keep the grass cut like it is in 1200AD? HAH! They didnt have grass to cut. The mounds were kept in exposed colored clays. Some of the mounds were red clay, some were white clay, and they didnt let things grow on them.
Never Trust Government
"You can be broke but you cant be poor." Ruthie-May Webster
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Re: Moundville
[Re: whack-n-stack]
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03/22/18 09:38 PM
03/22/18 09:38 PM
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jawbone
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What modern city can we hold comparable to Moundville in the year 1200?
Not the size of it, a comparison to significance. Not sure there is a way to compare with the mobilization of people in our times. Can you think of a modern city that is the cultural, entertainment, religious, political, and economic center of an entire region? That is the significance of Moundville, and then some, to the people of those times.
Lord, please help us get our nation straightened out.
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Re: Moundville
[Re: whack-n-stack]
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03/22/18 09:41 PM
03/22/18 09:41 PM
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What modern city can we hold comparable to Moundville in the year 1200?
Not the size of it, a comparison to significance. At that time Moundville was comparable in size to London, England population wise. The big difference was Moundville was built with wood and earth, not stone. All that wood is gone now so it makes it difficult for us to fully imagine the place.
Never Trust Government
"You can be broke but you cant be poor." Ruthie-May Webster
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Re: Moundville
[Re: Skinny]
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03/22/18 09:52 PM
03/22/18 09:52 PM
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Overland travel was much more common, faster, and safer, than river travel. They had maps between towns just like we do, but they did not have roads they just had large trails. Many of our modern roads today are built on those same trails.
Never Trust Government
"You can be broke but you cant be poor." Ruthie-May Webster
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Re: Moundville
[Re: Skinny]
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03/22/18 09:59 PM
03/22/18 09:59 PM
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BowtechDan
Old Mossy Horns
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Guess several states have a "Moundville".
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Re: Moundville
[Re: Skinny]
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03/22/18 10:01 PM
03/22/18 10:01 PM
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metalmuncher
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Overland travel was much more common, faster, and safer, than river travel. They had maps between towns just like we do, but they did not have roads they just had large trails. Many of our modern roads today are built on those same trails. I learned a little just now. I always thought river travel would have been much quicker, especially if they had a load to move. Now I gotta learn more by asking why was traveling trails quicker than waterways? Nevermind, I guess it has more to do with the locations of the other cities. If they're not on the same waterway it could take forever to float 100 miles downstream and fight the current back upstream along another river if the other village was only 40 miles away along the trail system. Am I close?
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Re: Moundville
[Re: Skinny]
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03/22/18 10:11 PM
03/22/18 10:11 PM
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Phil_Army
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The white man messed it up. They didn't have to clock in and out of work, they didn't have to pay taxes, and those that didn't work didn't eat. They fished and hunted and had it made...
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Re: Moundville
[Re: Skinny]
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03/22/18 10:29 PM
03/22/18 10:29 PM
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Posts: 8,113 Moundville, Al
SuperSpike
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Today was an absolutely beautiful day to be at Moundville. If any of ya'll are near there I suggest ya'll roll in to hang out at the place for a while. It will do you some good to think about how things were in Alabama around AD 1200. I took a load of students there for the day and we had a great time, the weather was perfect and the kids learned a lot. Next time your down this way holler at me. I live right across the road from the archeological park.
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Re: Moundville
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03/23/18 05:11 AM
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Shaw
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I live about 2 miles across the river from there.
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Re: Moundville
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03/23/18 05:39 AM
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Irishguy
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The white man messed it up. They didn't have to clock in and out of work, they didn't have to pay taxes, and those that didn't work didn't eat. They fished and hunted and had it made... You left out the part about attacking, killing and enslaving each other. Plus, in reality, they probably had to work a lot harder than we do now for much less of a lifestyle than we live. I'll keep my king size bed, air conditioner, nice hot shower and ice cold beer. Until I read the history of the Creek Indians I never realized that once the market for deer hides ran out, that the Creek tribes enslaved other tribes, traded the slaves to the English for guns and then were able to take even more slaves. I also didn't realize that the Creeks were a matriarchal society and the women owned everything and if a man and a woman got divorced the man had to leave and the woman kept all the stuff. (Kind of like it is now ) There is a common misconception that the women were second class in those days, but that wasn't the case with the Creeks. As a matter of fact it was quite common for white women to join the Creek nation, because women were treated much better in Creek society than in the white society. My 6th great grandfather was a Creek chief, but he was already 3/4 Scottish. Whatever tiny bit of Creek I have in me dwindled down to almost nothing in my DNA over 6 generations of nothing but white folks.
Last edited by Irishguy; 03/23/18 05:47 AM.
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Re: Moundville
[Re: Irishguy]
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03/23/18 07:21 AM
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The white man messed it up. They didn't have to clock in and out of work, they didn't have to pay taxes, and those that didn't work didn't eat. They fished and hunted and had it made... You left out the part about attacking, killing and enslaving each other. Plus, in reality, they probably had to work a lot harder than we do now for much less of a lifestyle than we live. I'll keep my king size bed, air conditioner, nice hot shower and ice cold beer. Until I read the history of the Creek Indians I never realized that once the market for deer hides ran out, that the Creek tribes enslaved other tribes, traded the slaves to the English for guns and then were able to take even more slaves. I also didn't realize that the Creeks were a matriarchal society and the women owned everything and if a man and a woman got divorced the man had to leave and the woman kept all the stuff. (Kind of like it is now ) There is a common misconception that the women were second class in those days, but that wasn't the case with the Creeks. As a matter of fact it was quite common for white women to join the Creek nation, because women were treated much better in Creek society than in the white society. My 6th great grandfather was a Creek chief, but he was already 3/4 Scottish. Whatever tiny bit of Creek I have in me dwindled down to almost nothing in my DNA over 6 generations of nothing but white folks. There’s a know it all in every crowd...
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Re: Moundville
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03/23/18 08:00 AM
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slippinlipjr
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I make Calds fer a livin
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In all my life I have never been to moundville. My uncle was born there. Always wanted to go and have driven all around it but never to it.
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Re: Moundville
[Re: slippinlipjr]
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03/23/18 08:24 AM
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Remington270
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In all my life I have never been to moundville. My uncle was born there. Always wanted to go and have driven all around it but never to it. You obviously didn't go to school in or near Tuscaloosa. Field trips there seemed like they were monthly.
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