700 A.D‚ tells of a culture named the Cahokia and is shrouded with a mysterious past. The rise and fall of this ancient culture has captured the interest of people around the world. Their gigantic man made mounds and artifacts of a once powerful culture that disappeared without a trace has been one of the largest mysteries of this nation. The Cohokia’s were an impressive civilization and build on a truly massive scale. At its height around 1050 A.D Cahokia had a population of 15‚000 inhabitants
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become attached to certain activities‚ clubs‚ friends‚ etc. Moving around also‚ does not mean they have to leave the city. They could be moving to a different neighborhood within the town. For example‚ when I was younger I used to live in town Grand Mound‚ Iowa. When I was around six years old‚ my family moved right outside
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Cahokia is a Native American city located across the Mississippi river‚ and is commonly referred to as the Cahokia mounds. This was the site of large farming operations‚ a central part of the trading network‚ and religious rituals. The size of the mounds led many people to believe that they were built by slave labor‚ but this was deemed false‚ the people actually considered it an honor to be a part of constructing something so great. Like many cities similar to Cahokia‚ there was a central area/mound
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the 1990’s‚ Mafic Mound was found on the south pole of the Moon. Although volcano-like‚ it was formed by a different process. Two different theories have been hypothesized. The first theory is that the South Pole-Aitken Impact caused “a cauldron of melted rock as much as 30 miles deep” (American Geophysical Union‚ Brown University) to form. This melted rock crystallized and shrunk; the middle portion of the rock (still molten) squeezed out onto the moon’s surface‚ creating a mound. Another possible
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Mason Walsh Professor Dennis Kellogg ANT 100 A 14 October 2016 Cahokia: Book Critique In his book Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi‚ Pauketat gives insight into the 1‚000 year old midwestern city of Cahokia‚ and how it became such a big city in such an ancient time. Pauketat by setting the scene for how big cahokia really was. Most of the pyramids at Cahokia were within a five mile radius‚ which were designed in reference to the “four sacred directions and the upper and lower
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Civilizations 16 November 2012 Mississippian Mound Builders Before the discovery of the Americas by Europeans‚ there were ancient Native American civilizations that flourished throughout the continents. Different regions were known for different things‚ whether it was hunting‚ gathering‚ or trading various commodities. One region in particular‚ from the Mississippi River Valley to the Ohio River Valley‚ was made famous by mound building (Joseph‚ p. 322). Mound building is a sacred and sometimes religious
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Myths of the Mound Builders The first time I heard about the Mound Builders‚ which was in this class‚ these people seemed like a very primitive group. What was so exciting about having the skill of piling up a bunch of dirt. Then I was able to see some of these mounds and the scale was nothing I had imagined. These mounds were huge and also contained distinct structural shapes. Tombs‚ houses‚ and religious structures were constructed in or on top of the mounds. What made the edifices even
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particular society time and time again. This essay traces the rise of Cahokia and Chaco Canyon and the developments of each culture to each cultures end. Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbian town in North America – five times the size of its nearest competition (Thomas 152). Cahokia was composed of a number of competing chiefdoms‚ sometimes consolidating into a single paramount chiefdom and other times warring with one another. Cahokia was home to 10‚000 – 15‚000 people and perhaps tens of thousands
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interesting topic of Native Americans and America before Columbus arrived. I will be discussing some ideas I summarized from this article. First of all‚ I have never heard of the name Cahokia before prior to reading the article. I was surprised at the fact that it was once a city in Illinois. In fact‚ the article described Cahokia as an Illinois Babylon. In addition‚ a misconception Europeans had about the North American Continent was the idea of it being an empty continent. This misconception was indeed
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