Cahokia

Near modern St Louis, Mississippian people built the largest city north of Mexico, with perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 people at its peak and a vast earthen mound, Monks Mound, at its centre.

Date: About 1050 to 1350VIII · Medieval networks and empires
Place: Cahokia, Illinois · Monks MoundThe Americas
Laid out as: A cityOne city, district by district, from its centre outwards.
Lessons: 6 planned, none written yet
Image: Prayitno, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Themes: Transport, towns and building works
Religion, belief and myth
Sport, games and leisure

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

IA city of mounds
IIMonks Mound
IIIWoodhenge
IVChunkey, a game for a city
VMound 72
VIWhy Cahokia emptied

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

Tim Pauketat
Melvin Fowler

Objects

Chunkey stones
The Birdman tablet

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestry Our species and the Old Stone Age Farming and the New Stone Age First cities and the Bronze Age The Iron Age and growing states The classical world After the empires Medieval networks and empires Oceans crossed Revolutions and the first factories Industry, empire and world war The world since 1945

1050 to 1350. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?