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Palisade, the Glossary

A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a row of closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall.^[1]

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Ancient Roman architectural elements
Engineering barrages
Medieval defences
Pre-Columbian architecture
Traditional Native American dwellings

Adirondack Mountains

The Adirondack Mountains are a massif of mountains in Northeastern New York which form a circular dome approximately wide and covering about.

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Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Angel Mounds

Angel Mounds State Historic Site (12 VG 1), an expression of the Mississippian culture, is an archaeological site managed by the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites that includes more than of land about southeast of present-day Evansville, in Vanderburgh and Warrick counties in Indiana.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Arkansas

Arkansas is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States.

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Aztalan State Park

Aztalan State Park is a Wisconsin state park in the Town of Aztalan, Jefferson County.

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Bastion

A bastion or bulwark is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. Palisade and bastion are engineering barrages.

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Big Moose Lake

Big Moose Lake, at the head of the Moose River, is a large lake about north of Fourth Lake in the Adirondacks in upstate New York.

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Cahokia

The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (11 MS 2) is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis, Missouri.

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Camp crown

In Ancient Rome, a camp crown (corona castrensis, "crown of the castrum"), also known as a vallary crown, was a military award given to the first man who penetrated into an enemy camp or field during combat.

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Castle

A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Palisade and castle are Medieval defences.

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City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality

The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (UMasipala weDolobhakazi laseGoli) is a metropolitan municipality that manages the local governance of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa.

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Collinsville, Illinois

Collinsville is a city located mainly in Madison County and partially in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States.

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Cupids

Cupids is a town of 699 people (per the 2021 Census) on Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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Defensive wall

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.

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Earthworks (engineering)

Earthworks are engineering works created through the processing of parts of the earth's surface involving quantities of soil or unformed rock.

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Etowah Indian Mounds

Etowah Indian Mounds (9BR1) are a archaeological site in Bartow County, Georgia, south of Cartersville.

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Fence

A fence is a structure that encloses an area, typically outdoors, and is usually constructed from posts that are connected by boards, wire, rails or netting. Palisade and fence are engineering barrages and fences.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Guard rail

Guard, Guard rails, guardrails, railings or protective guarding, in general, are a boundary feature and may be a means to prevent or deter access to dangerous or off-limits areas while allowing light and visibility in a greater way than a fence.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Country

The Illinois Country (Pays des Illinois;, i.e. the Illinois people) (Spanish: País de los ilinueses) — sometimes referred to as Upper Louisiana (Haute-Louisiane; Alta Luisiana)—was a vast region of New France claimed in the 1600s in what is now the Midwestern United States.

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Indiana

Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Jamestown, Virginia

The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

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Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site

The Kincaid Mounds Historic Site (11MX2-11; 11PO2-10), is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located at the southern tip of present-day U.S. state of Illinois, along the Ohio River.

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Livy

Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Mississippian culture

The Mississippian culture was a Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600, varying regionally. Palisade and Mississippian culture are history of indigenous peoples of North America.

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Monks Mound

Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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New France

New France (Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade

Also known as Pale fence, Palisaded, Palisaded settlement, Pallisade, Pallisades, Stakewall, The Pallisades.

Palisade, the Glossary

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See also

Ancient Roman architectural elements

Engineering barrages

Medieval defences

Pre-Columbian architecture

Traditional Native American dwellings

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