What happened to the Mound Builders?
We probably will never know exactly what happened or why they stopped building mounds. There seems to be a correlation of evidence that suggests something happened in North America that drove away the inhabitants. These inhabitants included not only the mound builders of eastern North America, but also the inhabitants of southwest American. Nations such as the Anasazi, seemed to have disappear from areas they inhabited for centuries. Since it seems that they left on their own, that is, they were not driven out by another group and replaced, it would seem that either some disease or plague spread across the land or perhaps there was a change in the climate that forced them to go elsewhere in search of food. The latter seems the most likely. However, since we have physiological evidence recorded in the growth of ancient trees it may be that what happened was drastic enough to force people to move, but short lived so as to not effect the big trees. A good example of something that could c
