Tag: Cahokia

The ancient city of Cahokia was originally founded about 600 CE and its time of greatest development appears to have been between 1050 and 1250. Conservative estimates say that Cahokia had a population of 10,000, but there are some who feel that its population may have been closer to 75,000. The most spectacular feature of … Continued

( – promoted by navajo) A thousand years ago one of the largest cities in the world was located across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis. Called Cahokia by archaeologists, we don’t know what it was called by its American Indian builders. A thousand years ago, Cahokia rivaled Paris, Berlin, and London in size. … Continued