Chiefdom · approximate1000 – 1550 · 550 years

Etowah / South Appalachian Mississippian

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

No editorial summary yet for Etowah / South Appalachian Mississippian. The border provenance and the wars recorded for this polity are what the dataset holds.

Borders & accuracy

Chiefdom

A paramount chiefdom with tributary peripheries; extent is inferred from settlement and tribute patterns and remains approximate.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-traced from Waldman Atlas of the North American Indian; Smithsonian Handbook of North American Indians
SNAPSHOT1375
MATCHEDUnited States/Canada
POLITY TYPEchiefdom

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

Mongol Conquests1206–1368
World-changing · 40M dead
Mongol Conquest of China1205–79
World-changing · 20M dead
Mongol Conquest of Song Dynasty1205–79
World-changing · 15M dead
Timurid Invasions1368–1405
World-changing · 5.0M dead
Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750
World-changing · 5.0M dead
American Indian Wars1500–1800
World-changing · 5.0M dead

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1000 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Etowah / South Appalachian Mississippian (1000 – 1550). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/etowah-south-appalachian-mississippian · Sources & methodology