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	Village of Cahokia, IL
		The Cahokia area was settled in 1699 by priests of the Seminary of Foreign Missions at Quebec, who built a log church outpost dedicated to the Holy Family (visible in the background of the above picture).
		The 50-mile stretch between Cahokia and Kaskaskia became prime farmland for the settlers, whose principle crop was wheat.
		Cahokia was later named the county seat of St. Clair County following the passage of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
	www.norcom2000.com /users/cahokia/historic.htm (336 words)

	CAHOKIA MOUNDS: ILLINOIS POWER SPOT?
		During the Middle Ages, Cahokia was a larger city than London and yet today, is an abandoned place about which we know almost nothing.
		The site is named after a tribe of Illiniwek Indians, the Cahokia, who lived in the area when the French arrived in the late 1600’s.
		CAHOKIA MOUNDS is located just outside of Collinsville, Illinois, a short distance off Interstates 55/70 and 255, along Route 40.
	www.prairieghosts.com /cahokia.html (936 words)

	Jerome Place Bed & Breakfast - Historic Cahokia, Illinois - Birthplace of the Midwest - BBOnline.com / Introduction
		Cahokia, the first permanent settlement of white men in the Illinois territory of the northwest country of North America, had its beginning in May 1699 with the founding of the Holy Family Mission by priests from Quebec, Canada.
		Cahokia is named for the tribe of Indians who were a part of the Illinois Indian Confederation.
		Cahokia is located in the geographic center of the United States along the Mississippi River.
	www.bbonline.com /il/jerome (505 words)

	Archaeological Sites
		For 500 years, Cahokia was the major center of a culture that, at its peak, stretched from Red Wing, Minnesota to Key Marco, Florida and across the southeast.
		The city of Cahokia is the focal point of what is known as the American Bottoms, the broad alluvial valley of the Mississippi River just south of the confluence of the Missouri, Illinois and Mississippi Rivers.
		Cahokia was a planned city with elaborate public buildings and perhaps elite residences at its core.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/northamerica/cahokia.html (603 words)

	Earthworks of Eastern North America - Cahokia Mounds Photo Gallery
		Monk's Mound, the largest-in-volume prehistoric earthen construction in the Americas, is one of 69 remaining mounds at Cahokia, most inside the 2,200 acre park preserving the central section of the largest prehistoric city north of Mexico.
		Cahokia was even termed, "The City of the Sun." While considering this idea, initially to quantify the temporal change in illumination angle, I assessed the geodetic properties of the Monks Mound latitude and discovered the '4/5 atan' latitude.
		At the latitude of Cahokia, the solstice azimuth spans near 1/6th of circumference; the precise latitude of this coincidence is south of Cahokia.
	www.jqjacobs.net /archaeo/cahokia.html (598 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Ancient Cahokia
		Cahokia was the largest city ever built north of Mexico before Columbus and boasted 120 earthen mounds.
		Although Cahokia must have had a complex culture to maintain a sizable city and raise monuments that stand a millenium later, no one knows whether the mystery people's culture influenced surrounding cultures or simply stood alone.
		Still, Cahokia attracted copper from mines near Lake Superior; salt from nearby mines; shells from the Gulf of Mexico; chert, a flintlike rock, from quarries as far as Oklahoma, and mica, a sparkling mineral, from the Carolinas.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/daily/march/12/cahokia.htm (2697 words)

	Cahokia Courthouse - Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Cahokia Courthouse was built as a residence around 1740, when present-day Illinois was a colony of France.
		Cahokia residents began in the late 1920s to lobby for return of the historic courthouse, leading the state to purchase the building and the land on which it was originally located.
		The remaining original fabric was returned to Cahokia and incorporated into the building that was constructed on the courthouse foundation.
	www.illinoishistory.gov /hs/cahokia_courthouse.htm (380 words)

	The Fall of Great Cahokia (The Anthropik Network) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Diamond cites the fall of Cahokia as an example in his book, he is doubtlessly referring to the argument of Cahokia's collapse that speaks most to Tainter's model of diminishing returns.
		The fact that the survivors of Cahokia's collapse erased all memory of that important site from their cultural memory certainly suggests that each of these groups were heir to one of the various political factions to emerge from Cahokia.
		In the end, Cahokia choked on its own complexity, and all that was left of one of the greatest civilizations of the New World was a very big pile of dirt.
	anthropik.com /2005/10/the-fall-of-great-cahokia (1619 words)

	Anthropology-Cahokia
		Cahokia was the dominant force in North America north of mexico between 900 A.D. and 1250 A.D. Cahokia started to decline in 1250 A.D. and was completely abandoned by 1400 A.D. The Cahokia site covers 2, 200 acres.
		Cahokia controlled a large suburban and rural network throughout southwestern Illinois until it's decline in 1400 A.D. It had influences as far away as Wisconsin, Georgia, and Oklahoma.
		Cahokia is the largest urban center of prehistoric time in the New World, north of Mexico.
	members.tripod.com /~IS335/cahokia.html (435 words)

	STOCKADE
		The stockade is one of the principal attractions of the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, and only one of thethings about Cahokia on which theories and assumptions diverge.
		This enormous two-mile-long palisade, which was discovered in excavations in 1966, is described as "encircling the most important sacred area of Cahokia which includes Monk's Mound, the plaza to the south and several smaller mound groups".
		The most reasonable interpretation of the wall which once ringed Cahokia seems to be that it represents a defensive fortification, particularly given the occurrence of similar, albeit smaller, structures at other Mississippian sites.
	www.bradley.edu /las/eng/lotm/Cahokia/STOCKADE.htm (702 words)

	Digital History
		Cahokia, the largest settlement north of central Mexico, flourished for three centuries before it was abandoned.
		At Cahokia’s core, within a log stockade ten to 12 feet tall, was the 200-acre Sacred Precinct where the ruling elite lived and were buried.
		Cahokia’s streets and 120 mounds were apparently laid out according to their builders’ spiritual principles and view of the cosmos.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /learning_history/1492/1492_cahokia.cfm (375 words)

	Mighty Cahokia
		Eight miles east of St. Louis, Cahokia was in its day the largest and most influential settlement north of Mexico.
		Some 120 earthen mounds supporting civic buildings and the residences of Cahokia's elite were spread over more than five square miles--perhaps six times as many earthen platforms as the great Mississippian site of Moundville, south of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
		Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site: View a map of the site and a description of each of the mounds, information for visitors, a calendar of events, and a bibliography of works about the mounds.
	www.archaeology.org /9605/abstracts/cahokia.html (316 words)

	St. Louis, MO - Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site Fact Sheet
		The 2200-acre historic site, located on an expansive flood plain near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, includes an interpretive center, 69 mounds which were built by the city's prehistoric inhabitants and Woodhenge, a solar calendar which was used by the ancient people.
		It is not known exactly why but experts suspect a combination of factors including depletion of local resources, climatic changes that may have affected crops, political and economic disruptions, Cahokia's loss of power and possibly disease.
		The area had long been recognized as the site of Indian mounds but it was not until the late 1800's that people took interest in them after an amateur archeologist did some digging in the area and found a number of artifacts.
	www.explorestlouis.com /factSheets/fact_cahokia.asp?PageType=4 (1551 words)

	MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Summer 1999: Cahokia: Forgotten Jewel of the Midwest: Part II
		The first known major city-state in North America, Cahokia, was not nearly as large, powerful, or highly developed as its cousins in the south, but it reflected many of their characteristics in the most fundamental ways.
		Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site preserves the remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric Indian civilization north of Mexico, circa A.D. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982, Cahokia is noted for its important role in the prehistory of North America.
		This sprawling complex, known to archaeologists as Cahokia, was the dominant cultural, ceremonial, and trade center north of Mexico for centuries.
	www.mysteriousworld.com /Journal/1999/Summer/Cahokia02 (3058 words)

	Cahokia
		Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico.
		The Cahokia site is known best for the construction of over 100 earthen mounds used for burials and house/temple platforms.
		Excavations begun in 1966 eventually confirmed that an enormous, two-mile-long stockade surrounded the central portion of Cahokia.
	www.umsl.edu /~anttbaum/Cahokia.html (715 words)

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		Some scholars believe that Cahokia was connected to the great civilizations to the west and to the south.
		With pyramids, mounds, and several large ceremonial areas, Cahokia was the hub of a way of life for millions of Native Americans before the society's decline and devastation by foreign diseases.
		Cahokia can be viewed as the result of developments termed Emergent Mississippian that occurred throughout the central and lower Mississippi River Valley between a.d.
	www.lycos.com /info/cahokia.html (640 words)

	Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos, Sally A. Kitt Chappell, an excerpt
		With its plazas aligned on the cardinal directions and the mound of greatest height at the crossing of the plazas, it is clear that Cahokia is a landscape cosmogram.
		Life at Cahokia was filled with workers going about daily activities and the tasks of house building in the shadows of the tall mounds occupied by the elite.
		The greater Cahokia site...relates the hierarchy of the social structure to the architecture of the cosmos.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/101363.html (3590 words)

	Cahokia
		Cahokia Mounds preserves the remains of the central section of the only prehistoric Indian city north of Mexico.
		Covering about 4,000 acres, the Cahokia site was first inhabited around 700 A.D. and grew to a population of about 20,000 by 1100 A.D. Sixty-eight of the original one hundred and twenty entirely earthen mounds are preserved within the historic area.
		Cahokia became a regional center for the Mississippian culture after A.D. 900, with many outlying hamlets and villages, and major satellite towns near the modern communities of Mitchell, Dupo, Lebanon, East St. Louis, and St. Louis.
	www.pccua.edu /keough/chokia.htm (1262 words)

	Cahokia Mounds Washington State Park Rock Art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cahokia was the capital city of a powerful Native American kingdom.
		Cahokia has the same grand scale and high degree of planning that can be recognized at Bronze Age cities such as Mari, Narwa, Urkish, and Ebla (all in Syria).
		Cahokia is remarkably larger and far more complex than the monumental sites associated with the chiefdom that governed the Hawaiian islands.
	users.stlcc.edu /mfuller/cahokia.html (811 words)

	Cahokia Precinct, St. Clair County, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cahokia was several feet under water, and the inhabitants fled to the bluff south-east of the village for safety during the flood.
		Prior to 1841 the commons of Cahokia were used by the inhabitants only for the common purpose of pasturage, fuel, etc. Here was a large and valuable tract of land, from which the villagers were reaping but a small advantage.
		In speaking of Cahokia as it was in 1765, Captain Pitman, who was officially employed by Great Britain to survey the forts and villages in the English territories, after it had passed from the French dominion, says: "It is long and straggling, being threefourths of a mile from one end to the other.
	www.compu-type.net /rengen/stclair/1881caho.htm (5817 words)

	Indian Mounds Mystify Excavators
		Archeologists continue to comb what is now the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, looking for clues that will tell them what happened here -- why the city and its culture vanished and why the people who lived here built more than a hundred earthen mounds, many of which are still scattered across the countryside.
		Cahokia is not the historical name of this city; the current name comes from the native people who were living in the area when French explorers arrived in the early 1600s.
		Monks Mound, Cahokia's biggest mound, is a pyramid mound that rises 100 feet from its 14-acre base.
	www.wired.com /news/roadtrip/riverroad/0,2704,65170,00.html (733 words)

	Newsvine - The Rise and Fall of Cahokia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As the attackers fought their way through waves of reinforcements and marched towards the city gates, the leaders of Cahokia knew that their only hope was to turn to a super weapon they had developed under the guidance of the “Great Spirits”.
		Using the mounds they had built as control towers, all of the spiritual leaders and citizens of Cahokia focused their psychic energy against the attackers.
		Buildings crumbled to dust from the power of this attack and all evidence of the Cahokians and the attackers was wiped away, leaving only the giant mounds of earth they had constructed.
	failedsuccess.newsvine.com /_news/2006/04/13/165821-the-rise-and-fall-of-cahokia (1050 words)

	Cahokia Mounds - The oldest archeaological site in America
		Built by ancient peoples known as the Mound Builders, Cahokia's original population was thought to have been only about 1,000 until about the 11th century when it expanded to tens of thousands.
		The name Cahokia is that of a unrelated tribe that was living in the area when the first French explorers arrived in the late 17th century.
		Cahokia is a source of powerful psychic energy.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /IL-Cahokia.html (968 words)

	Cahokia, Illinois (IL) Detailed Profile - relocation, real estate, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, news, sex ...
		The ratio of number of residents in Cahokia to the number of sex offenders is 380 to 1.
		Regions Bank: Cahokia Facility at 900 Upper Cahokia Road, branch established on 1962-12-10; Drive-In Facility at 1304 Camp Jackson Road, branch established on 1978-04-20.
		U.S. Bank National Association: Cahokia Schnucks Branch at 1615 Camp Jackson, branch established on 2005-11-07; Cahokia Branch at 1050 Camp Jackson Road, branch established on 1987-06-30.
	www.city-data.com /city/Cahokia-Illinois.html (1880 words)

	Cahokia News - Topix
		Two homes in the 2800 block of Camp Jackson Road in Cahokia were evacuated early this morning after an SUV ran off the road and ruptured a gas main.
		Louis was still waiting for a break Saturday in the case of a Cahokia resident found murdered in his apartment.
		Cahokia police on Thursday evening said detectives were in the early stages of their investigation.
	www.topix.net /city/cahokia-il (1134 words)

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