FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA
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the worship of a Cahokian goddess associated with agricultural crops
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the construction of a post-circle monument at Cahokia
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the exporting of Cahokian religious practices to distant lands
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the construction of a defensive wall around Cahokia
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cahokia began to decline by the 13th century and was mysteriously abandoned around AD 1300-1350. Scholars have suggested various causes, such as environmental factors, flooding, deforestation, or an exhaustion of natural resources.
Detailed explanation-2: -As Cahokia dissolved, the nonlocal citizens might have simply gone home. The descendants of Cahokians might include people in various tribal groups in the Plains and the South today: the Quapaw, Omaha, Pawnee, Chickasaw, Ponca, Mandan, Choctaw, and Osage, among others.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Cahokia was located in a strategic position near the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers. It maintained trade links with communities as far away as the Great Lakes to the north and the Gulf Coast to the south, trading in such exotic items as copper, Mill Creek chert, and whelk shells.