FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA
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A pyramid made of packed earth that rose in three major terraces to a height of one hundred feet.
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A mound used to enclose sacred ceremonial spaces in which great crowds would gather.
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A large circle of cedar posts that numbered in multiples of twelve, indicating a recognition of the number of lunar months in a year.
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A city built by American Indians along the Mississippi River almost a thousand years ago.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -One of Cahokia’s greatest influences was religious. Cahokia was built and organized around particular cosmological worldviews. The city’s built landscape, including major mounds, a causeway, and woodhenge, all enacted a cosmology based on celestial alignments, sacred materials, and burial practices.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cahokia was the largest and most influential urban settlement of the Mississippian culture, which developed advanced societies across much of what is now the Central and the Southeastern United States, beginning more than 1, 000 years before European contact.
Detailed explanation-4: -It had been built by the Mississippians, a group of Native Americans who occupied much of the present-day south-eastern United States, from the Mississippi river to the shores of the Atlantic. Cahokia was a sophisticated and cosmopolitan city for its time.
Detailed explanation-5: -Built around 1050 A.D. and occupied through 1400 A.D., Cahokia had a peak population of between 25, 000 and 50, 000 people. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Cahokia was composed of three boroughs (Cahokia, East St. Louis, and St.