Like the Hopewell culture the Mississippian culture relied on hunting, agriculture and trading.

和霍普韦尔文化很类似密西西比文化以打猎，农业和贸易为主。

The Mississippian people were city dwellers.

密西西比人是城市居民。

But the Mississippians' largest city was here in Illinois.

但密西西比州最大的城市在伊利诺伊州。

They belong to a mysterious and long-lost civilization known as the Mississippian culture.

他们属于一种神秘而失传已久的文明，即密西西比文化。

We now call these Native Americans the Mississippian culture, because they settled in the Mississippi River valley.

我们现在称这些美洲原住民为密西西比文化，因为他们定居在密西西比河流域。

The Mississippian people were the first in North America to build permanent communities of thousands of people and do extensive farming.

密西西比人是北美第一个建立由数千人组成的永久性社区并进行广泛耕种的人。

From these inhabitants 12,000 years ago,  a succession of cultures had progressed from the Hopewell culture to the Woodland  culture to the Mississippian Culture development.

从 12,000 年前的这些居民开始，从霍普韦尔文化到林地文化再到密西西比文化发展， 一系列文化已经发展。

It was built not by the Aztecs but by prehistoric Native Americans who were part of the Mississippian culture, which dates back more than 1,000 years.

它不是由阿兹特克人建造的，而是由史前美洲原住民建造的，他们是密西西比文化的一部分，可追溯到 1000 多年前。

Around 500BC the Hopewell culture gave way to the Mississippian or Temple Mound culture best represented today by the ruins surviving at Cahokia, Illinois, a city right across the Mississippi River from St Louis.

在500bc左右霍普韦尔文化让位于密西西比土墩群文化我们今天能看到的最好的遗址就在伊利诺伊的卡俄基亚，就在圣路易斯密西西比河的对面。

These earthworks at Angel Mound State Historic Site were once the heart of a thriving community called the " Mississippian culture." Up to 1,500 people lived here beginning around 1000 AD.

Angel Mound State Historic Site 的这些土方工程曾经是被称为“密西西比文化”的繁荣社区的中心。从公元 1000 年左右开始，多达 1,500 人居住在这里。