Below is a timeline and comparison chart representing Hopewell and Adena Cultures with Book of Mormon people and cultures.
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Timeline


North America History

100 B. C. Hopewell are building forts:  walls of wood, towers and narrow places of entrance.

Vol. I pg.162-163		 50 A. D.  Hopewell Forts built at tip of  Southern Illinois.  They were built in a line from Ohio to the Mississippi.  Center of Hopewell Culture.

Vol. II
pg. 58-69 		100 A. D. 150 A. D  Hopewell Culture to build best geometric earthworks.

Vol I
pg.149-153		 400 A. D. Hopewell Culture is  No longer found in the archaeological  record.


Book of Mormon History

72 B. C.
Captain Moroni Fortifies Nephite Cities

Alma 48: 7-9		 16 A. D. Govenor Lamoni gathers Nephites and Lamanites in center of the land to fight Gadianton robbers

3 Nephi 3: 13-25		 Commerce in all lands while building many cities.

4 Nephi 1: 27-35		 Nephites/Lamanites Total Peace

4 Nephi 1: 27-35		 4 Nephi 1: 27-35 385 A. D.
End of Nephite people as a sovereign nation.

Mormon 6: 8-15

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Comparison Chart

Adena (1500 B. C. to 300 B. C.) and Hopewell Cultures (300 B. C. to 400 A. D.) of North America 
compared to The Book of Mormon

Comparisons

The Book of Mormon

Hopewell

 Adena

Used wood for building buildings

2 Nephi 6: 15-16
Jarom 1:8
Mosiah 11: 8-10		 YES
All wood structures 		under construction

Banks of earth and stone thrown up around to fortify all the cities

 Alma 48:8, 49: 13, 50:1-10 YES
Numerous Ohio Sites 		under construction

Ditches dug around banks of earth buildings

Alma 49; 22 YES
200+WEST NEW YORK

Walls of timber upon the earthen banks

 Alma 50: 2 YES
Ohio to New York

Towers upon the walls

 Alma 50: 4-5 YES
Ohio Forts

Narrow places of entrance

 Alma 49: 4-5 YES
Ohio Forts

Big population covering the land

 Alma 43: 51 YES
Thousands of sites

Light skin and Dark skin people

 2 Nephi 5:21 YES
Eastern Tribes Oral Tradition

War reason of religion

 Alma 44: 2 YES
Seneca's of New York

Narrow pass (neck) of land

 Alma 50: 34 YES
Great Lake Area

Sea divides the land, narrow neck

Ether 10: 20 YES
Niagara, between Erie and Ontario Lahe

Hill Oneidah (Hill Onidah)

Alma 32: 4
Alma 47: 5		 YES
Easter Tribe, Oral

Earthen works reversed with ditch on the inside of bank.

Alma 53: 5 YES
Newark, Ohio

Jaradites

Ether 15: 11 YES
Great Lakes
(Adena Culture 1500 BC)

Elephants

Ether 9: 19 YES
Josiah Priest, Discoveries m the West, Archaeology of OHIO
M.C.Read Elephant Pipes IOWA

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