Volume III · The Houses
Mississippian Culture (Cahokia)
Mound-building Mississippian culture of the North American Eastern Woodlands; Cahokia arose in the Mississippi floodplain near the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers, opposite modern St. Louis
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01How it began
Mound-building Mississippian culture of the North American Eastern Woodlands; Cahokia arose in the Mississippi floodplain near the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers, opposite modern St. Louis
02At its height
c. 1050-1200 AD; at its height Cahokia held an estimated 15,000-20,000 people, larger than contemporary London, and was the largest city north of Mexico
Territory in the record
The American Bottom of the Mississippi floodplain in present-day Illinois, anchoring a trade and cultural network that reached the Great Lakes, the Gulf Coast, and the Great Plains
03What became of it
Declined and was fully abandoned by c. 1350-1400 AD, well before European contact; the reasons remain debated
04What remained
Monks Mound and roughly 120 earthen mounds survive as a UNESCO World Heritage Site; proof that urban, hierarchical society developed independently in North America
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