USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Cahokians spent much of their time outdoors. What evidence in the text supports this statement?
A
“Cahokia was not the first archaeological site with large earthen mounds. Mounded sites as old as 5, 500 years are known in northeastern Louisiana, dating to what is termed the ‘Archaic period’ (8000-500 BC).”
B
“A day in the life of an average Cahokian family involved spending most of the day working in the fields, fishing, and hunting.”
C
“Some Cahokianized populations, such as people in the Illinois River valley a hundred miles north of Cahokia, developed independently of the city to the south.”
D
“ ____ the facts of Cahokia’s founding and its prolonged demise suggest that Cahokia was-like so many cities around the world-made up of more than one ethnic group.”
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Native Americans at Cahokia farmed, traded and hunted. They were also early urban planners, who used astronomical alignments to lay out a low-scale metropolis of 10-20, 000 people, featuring a town centre with broad public plazas and key buildings set atop vast, hand-built earthen mounds.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is aUNESCO World Heritage Site and a State Historic Park. The village of Cahokia is the home of significant colonial and Federal-period buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Cahokia Courthouse (c 1740), in the French Colonial style, Church of the Holy Family (Cahokia) (c.

Detailed explanation-3: -Covering more than 2, 000 acres, Cahokia is the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilization north of Mexico. Best known for large, man-made earthen structures, the city of Cahokia was inhabited from about A.D. 700 to 1400.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Cahokia resided in present Illinois near the confluence of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers when Father Jacques Marquette visited the region in 1673. About 1700 they moved south along the east bank of the Mississippi to a site near present Cahokia, Illinois, where a Catholic mission had been established in 1699.

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