How Cahokia Was Mighty

North of Mexico, the pre-Colombian settlement of Cahokia was the most influential and intricate Native American community in North America. A society of mound builders, which endured from about 9500 B.C. to 1400 A.D., they set up a massive trading center complete with their own types of governing bodies, architecture, religion, sophisticated farming, and local specialties. In one way or another, the Cahokian culture touched even the far reaches of the present day United States, “ …

…on Native American sites all over the United States. As mighty as Cahokia was, the people there did not survive. By about 1400, the settlement was abandoned. There are several ideas of why this happened, but nothing has been proved. Even so, there are things that have transcended the era of the Cahokian people, such as artifacts, bones, and of course the mounds, that aide our imaginations in visualizing the majesty of what was mighty Cahokia.