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Cahokia can be found in the present day state of Illinois. It is across the Mississippi River from St Louis, Missouri.

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What present day city is Cahokia near?

Cahokia is located in what is now Illinois.


Which Native American tribe constructed large mound-shaped structures?

The Cahokia tribe, a pre-Columbian Native American civilization located near present-day St. Louis, Missouri, constructed large mound-shaped structures. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site preserves the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico.


What is the authors thesis statement in cahokia?

The author's thesis statement in Cahokia is that the ancient Native American city of Cahokia, located near present-day St. Louis, was a complex urban center that flourished between the 9th and 14th centuries, with a sophisticated social and political structure, extensive trade networks, and monumental earthworks. The author argues that Cahokia challenges traditional narratives of pre-Columbian Native American societies as primarily small-scale and nomadic.


What happened to the Lost City of Cahokia?

The Lost City of Cahokia was a pre-Columbian Native American city located near present-day Collinsville, Illinois. It was abandoned around the 14th century for reasons that are still debated among archaeologists, including overpopulation, resource depletion, and environmental changes. Today, it is a UNESCO World Heritage site and the largest archaeological site of ancient Mississippian culture in the United States.


Cahokia was the largest what?

Cahokia was the largest settlement in North America from 600-1400 AD, and perhaps the largest human settlement in the world in the 14th century before it's collapse (most likely to diseases brought to the Western Hemisphere by Europeans).