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uses: they were used as stages for ceremonies&rituals,often as platforms for dwellings, and occasionally served as burial sites

importance: my textbook states that it was the largest surviving structure from the mound-building peoples. It is the third largest structure in the Western Hemisphere before the Europeans arrived.

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because it was proof to the euro-centric Europeans that they did not bring technology and civilization to the natives. The natives already were just as advanced as the Europeans.

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