Read this sentence from the text. We owe it to the descendants of this once-great place, if not to American history generally, to preserve that which is left-mounds, the buried debris of religious festivals, and the rotted remains of thousands of homes. What punctuation mark could best replace the em dash between left and mounds?

PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA

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Read this sentence from the text. “We owe it to the descendants of this once-great place, if not to American history generally, to preserve that which is left-mounds, the buried debris of religious festivals, and the rotted remains of thousands of homes.” What punctuation mark could best replace the em dash between “left” and “mounds”?

A	a comma
B	a semicolon
C	a colon
D	a question mark

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -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. One group might have descended from the Cahokian elite, and another from farmers.

Detailed explanation-2: -They might have started their own tribe. Why might the descendants of Cahokia have chosen to forget Cahokia? Because many of them were (possibly) members of other peoples.

Detailed explanation-3: -The largest mound at the Cahokia site, the largest man-made earthen mound in the North American continent, is Monks Mound (Mound 38). It received its name from the group of Trappist Monks who lived on one of the nearby mounds.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA