Mississippian / Cahokia

Overview

The Cahokia Mounds is the site of a Native American city directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis. The state archaeology park lies in south-western Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville. The park covers 2,200 acres (890 ha), or about 3.5 square miles (9 km2), and contains about 80 manmade mounds, but the ancient city was much larger. At its apex around 1100 CE, the city covered about 6 square miles (16 km2), included about 120 earthworks in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and functions, and had a population of between 15,000 and 20,000 people.

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Borders & accuracy

An archaeological culture; extent is defined by where its material remains have been found rather than by political control.

• SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
• DETAILhand-traced-from:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia
• SNAPSHOT1100
• POLITY TYPEculture

Cahokian polity at peak ~1050-1200: American Bottom + ~50km radius at the Mississippi-Missouri confluence.

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

• Mongol Conquests1206–1368
  World-changing · 40M dead
• Mongol Conquest of China1205–79
  World-changing · 20M dead
• Mongol Conquest of Song Dynasty1205–79
  World-changing · 15M dead
• Jiedushi (Military Commissioner) Rebellions755–880 CE
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Timurid Invasions1368–1405
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Hundred Years' War1337–1453
  World-changing · 3.0M dead