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You do the Cahokia Pokia and you build a giant mound. That's what it was all about...back in the year 1000 apparently.
Transcript
- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in Oh Every city tour has
- 00:14
its highlights samos buildings and landmarks famous local cuisine and
- 00:19
even famous mounds Yep believe it or not this giant
- 00:23
pile of dirt now known as monks mound was once
- 00:26
the tourist attraction of a bustling metropolis known as cahokia
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- 00:30
It was located near present day st louis missouri The
- 00:34
ka hokey a had no written language but inside the
- 00:37
eighty mounds that still remain archaeologists have found artifacts that
- 00:40
tells the story of this ancient city and no not
- 00:43
ancient snapchat stories Back in eleven fifty a d cahokia
- 00:47
was a diverse city featuring people from many native north
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american tribes Close to fifty thousand people called it home
- 00:53
sweet home making it the largest city in north america
- 00:56
and larger even than some european cities Care to take
- 01:00
a stroll down memory lane There's some kids over there
- 01:02
playing the great cahokia pastime chunky stones there's some residents
- 01:06
drinking a beverage made from holly leaves The leaves are
- 01:09
imported from hundreds of miles away It's called black drink
- 01:13
and it's got enough caffeine to get you through the
- 01:15
rest of the tour Maybe starbucks has try brewing this
- 01:18
stuff Here's a marketplace where people travel from far and
- 01:21
wide to trade We know because birdman religious tablets like
- 01:25
this one have been found far from cahokia there's cocchi
- 01:29
a solar calendar it's very sophisticated and one day archaeologists
- 01:33
will refer to it as would hinge let's go to
- 01:36
the piece de resistance of cahokia the mounds Here we
- 01:40
are monks mound as it once wass it's made up
- 01:43
of more than fifteen million baskets of soil is over
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one hundred feet tall and covers fourteen acres that makes
- 01:50
it wider than the pyramids up top You can see
- 01:53
a temple or perhaps is the house of a government
- 01:55
official or wealthy local Actually income inequality is a bit
- 01:59
of a problem here there's a class of wealthy powerful
- 02:02
people and a large class of slaves called stinkers We
- 02:05
know not settle and not very nice but don't expect
- 02:08
an occupy cahokia movement anytime soon That's because like a
- 02:12
hokey a also practiced human sacrifice and women and slaves
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may have been the biggest set of victims We know
- 02:18
from bone evidence that at least one wealthy resident was
- 02:20
buried along with four other men and as well as
- 02:23
fifty three women who might have been poisoned or strangled
- 02:26
all of them were buried together in this mound Other
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mounds contained similar burial sites Okay so maybe cahokia was
- 02:33
a great place to visit but not always a great
- 02:34
place to live But for hundreds of years it was
- 02:37
a thriving city Then around the thirteenth century it was
- 02:41
abandoned and no one ever moved back Archaeologists aren't sure
- 02:45
what caused the people to abandon cahokia Lack of resource
- 02:48
is disease war We may never find out perhaps only
- 02:52
the mountains No for sure Then again maybe not You're 00:02:58.465 --> [endTime] disgusting
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