FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA
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Cahokia was an important city in pre-Columbian America.
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Around AD 1100, the city of Cahokia covered more than five square miles.
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Mounds of the “Woodland period” were built to cover the burials of important people.
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Cahokia began as a modest-sized agricultural village.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is the main idea of this text? Cahokia was an important city in pre-Columbian America. Around AD 1100, the city of Cahokia covered more than five square miles. Mounds of the “Woodland period” were built to cover the burials of important people.
Detailed explanation-2: -As the largest urban center on the continent, Cahokia became a center of religious devotion and trade. At its height, based on artifacts excavated, the city traded as far north as present-day Canada and as far south as Mexico as well as to the east and west.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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-5: -Cahokia was the largest pre-columbian settlement north of Mexico. It collapsed centuries before Europeans arrived in the region.