Cahokia. America&#x27;s lost metropolis

Cahokia. America's lost metropolis

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Cahokia began with a big-bang and by a big-bang I mean that it was explosive. People moved to Cahokia within a very short period of time, in matter of years, a few years possibly. It's a beginning of a ... of a new world in a sense, it's a Cahokian world. The new world was a great city of earth mounds. As early as 1050 AD , downtown Cahokia contained about a 120 mounds, covering six square miles. Clusters of Mounds, the suburbs stretched over both sides of the Mississippi , now covered by parts of present days St. Louis. Until this was lost under highways and office blocks, St. Louis was once known as Mound City. Only a few paintings and photographs have survived. The biggest mound here was destroyed just over a 100 years ago.