FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Monks Mound, an enormous structure similar in size to the Great Pyramid of Giza
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It’s precarious perch at the very edge of the Grand Canyon
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The extremely precise and sharp tools created from the volcanic rock that the city was built upon
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cahokia Mounds, some 13 km north-east of St Louis, Missouri, is the largest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico. It was occupied primarily during the Mississippian period (800–1400), when it covered nearly 1, 600 ha and included some 120 mounds.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cahokia was the largest city ever built north of Mexico before Columbus and boasted 120 earthen mounds. Many were massive, square-bottomed, flat-topped pyramids–great pedestals atop which civic leaders lived. At the vast plaza in the city’s center rose the largest earthwork in the Americas, the 100-foot Monks Mound.
Detailed explanation-3: -Monks Mound is the largest structure and central focus of the city: a massive platform mound with four terraces, 10 stories tall, it is the largest man-made earthen mound north of Mexico. Facing south, it is 100 ft (30 m) high, 951 ft (290 m) long, 836 ft (255 m) wide and covers 13.8 acres (5.6 ha).
Detailed explanation-4: -Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site preserves the central section of the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico. Occupied from 700 to 1400, the city grew to cover 4, 000 acres, with a population of between ten and twenty thousand at its peak around 1100.