{Bridging Cycles?}[29th September 1990]

[Redbook7:343-344][19900929:2227b]{Bridging Cycles?}[29th September 1990]

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In North America, the Hopewell culture (of villages and concentrated wealth) dominated the Illinois and Ohio valleys from c400bce to c400ce. It was followed, in this area, by a relative decline in social cohesion in a generalised ‘Woodland’ culture, which had parallel[s to] it in neighbouring areas of North America. In c800ce, a new and stronger tradition moved up the Mississippi valley, with large towns, each with a central ceremonial plaza and (or surrounded by) a public building(s) on a mound(s). This pattern which was common in Middle America from c850bce, still flourished in the southern Mississippi Valley when the first Europeans arrived in the early 16^th century.**

While the parallel is not exact, it is interesting that the Western Roman Empire in Eurafrasia [sic] lasted c509[bce] (Foundation of the Roman Republic – dominating the Latin towns by c358bce) to c476cs (Last Western [Roman] Emperor deposed by Odoacer, King of the Goths – after sack of Rome, 410ce). In Europe, and in North Africa temporarily, the Roman Empire was replaced from about 400ce onwards by Barbarian invaders, whose dominance of Europe continues to this day.

*[Presumably, [Redbook7:330-331][19900924:1315b]{4096-year Cycles (2) [continued]}[24th September 1990],] 331→

**per E[ncyclopaedia B[ritannica] 26:58

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