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Cahokia: A Pre-Columbian American City

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  • Q1
    What was Cahokia?
    a large circle of cedar posts that numbered in multiples of twelve, indicating a recognition of the number of lunar months in a year
    a city built by American Indians along the Mississippi River almost a thousand years ago
    a mound used to enclose sacred ceremonial spaces in which great crowds would gather
    a pyramid made of packed earth that rose in three major terraces to a height of one hundred feet
    30s
  • Q2
    The text discusses the causes of Cahokia's decrease in population. What was one the of the causes?
    the building of Monks Mound"
    a series of droughts
    the collection of berries and roots by women and girls
    a game called "chunkey"
    30s
  • Q3
    Cahokians spent much of their time outdoors. What evidence in the text supports this statement?
    "Some Cahokianized populations, such as people in the Illinois River valley a hundred miles north of Cahokia, developed independently of the city to the south."
    "...the facts of Cahokia's founding and its prolonged demise suggest that Cahokia was -like so many cities around the world- made up of more than one ethnic group."
    "Cahokia was not the first archaeological site with large earthen mounds. Mounded sites as old as 5,500 years are known in northeastern Louisiana, dating to what is termed the 'Archaic period' (8000-500 BC)."
    "A day in the life on an average Cahokian family involved spending most of the day working in the fields, fishing, and hunting."
    60s
  • Q4
    Military actions might have taken place between Cahokians and people to the north. What evidence supports this idea?
    the construction of a defensive wall around Cahokia
    the worship of a Cahokian goddess associated with agricultural crops
    the exporting of Cahokian religious practices to distant lands
    the construction of a post-circle monument at Cahokia
    60s
  • Q5
    What is the main idea of this text?
    Cahokia was an important city in pre-Columbian America.
    Cahokia began as a modest-sized agricultural village.
    Mounds of the "Woodland period" were built to cover the burials of important people.
    Around AD 1100, the city of Cahokia covered more than five square miles.
    60s
  • Q6
    Read these sentences from the text. "Whoever they became, and however Cahokia fell, another important archaeological mystery yet remains. Possible descendants include the peoples of great American Indian Nations and tribal groups met by Lewis and Clark in 1804 or painted by George Catlin in the 1830s. Any yet among them, including the Quapaw, Omaha, Pawnee, and others, there are no stories that speak of the city of Cahokia. Why might the descendants of Cahokia have chosen to forget Cahokia? The answers might remain in the ruins of Cahokia, the central portion of which is preserved within Illinois' Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site." What might be the author's purpose for asking the question, "Why might the descendants of Cahokia have chosen to forget Cahokia?"
    to express the "archealogical mystery" about Cahokia that still remains
    to emphasize the connection between the Quapaw ans the people of Cahokia
    to criticize the way Lewis and Clark treated the tribal groups they met
    to make readers wonder about the differences between the Omaha and the Pawnee
    60s
  • Q7
    Read this sentance from the text. "We owe it to the descendants of this once-great place, if not to American history generally, to preserve that which is left-mounds, the buried debris of religious festivals, and the rotted remains of thousands of homes." What punctuation mark could best replace the em dash between "left" and "mounds"?
    a question mark
    a colon
    a comma
    a semicolon
    60s

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