USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Read this sentence from the text. “Possibly, the people of Cahokia included local farmers and contingents of dignitaries and representatives from far-off peoples in the Plains, Midwest, and South.” According to the text, what might the nonlocal citizens of Cahokia have done when Cahokia dissolved?
A
They might have started a new settlement in Canada.
B
They might have moved to Arizona.
C
They might have gone home.
D
They might have started their own tribe.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"Possibly, the people of Cahokia included local farmers and contingents of dignitaries and representatives from far-off peoples in the Plains, Midwest, and South.” According to the text, what might the nonlocal citizens of Cahokia have done when Cahokia dissolved? They might have started a new settlement in Canada.

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, Choclaw, and Osage, among others.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Cahokia were members of the Illinois, a group of approximately twelve Algonquian-speaking tribes who occupied areas of present Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Arkansas.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Cahokia, along with the Michigamea, were eventually absorbed by the Kaskaskia and finally the Peoria. The Cahokia tribe is now considered extinct. Another earlier tribe, also referred to as Cahokians, built one of the largest man-made earthen structures in America and a large city.

Detailed explanation-5: -The name Cahokia is a reference to one of the Indian tribes of the Illinois Confederation, a group of related Algonquian tribes (usually referred to as “Illinois” or the “Illiniwek” or “Illini, ” who were a group of Indian tribes in the upper Mississippi River valley.

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