History of the United States I / Unit 1 USH1 0015 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hopewell and Cahokia
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The idea
The Hopewell of the Ohio River Valley traded by waterway from Canada to Louisiana. Cahokia, peaking about eleven hundred CE, held over ten thousand residents across five square miles.
In practice
Cahokia's one hundred twenty earthen mounds, the largest covering fifteen acres.
Where people slip
Hopewell trade was negotiated in many different languages, and its burial goods indicate a socially stratified society.
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