Cahokia Mounds once one of the greatest cities in the world

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4 жыл бұрын

It was once one of the largest cities in the Americas, and remains home to the largest prehistoric manmade earthen construct in the United States. Cahokia Mounds is a state historic site managed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and soon could be designated as a National Historical Park.
The archeology of the area has shed light on the lives and accomplishments of the Mississippian people that once inhabited this land, and the Interpretive Center and surviving mounds at Cahokia continue to educate visitors all year round.
For more information and to plan your visit go to www.cahokiamounds.org.
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@cienergi 10 ай бұрын

I am so glad I saw this mound in person. Unfortunately the museum and gift shop were closed. I highly recommend getting a guided tour, I learned so many things.

@FacesintheStone Жыл бұрын

Great video. An ancient site has been discovered during excavation for housing development in NC.

@River-Banks360 3 жыл бұрын

Also include the mounds that were destroyed on the St. Louis side of the Miss. Also the mounds of the tributaries of the Mississippi below and above St Louis. Most plowed over.

@HyoOa Ай бұрын

Did Caucasians do this plowing?

@River-Banks360 Ай бұрын

@@HyoOa Many generations of plowing over the mounds. Diverse groups did the plowing. Yes Caucasians did some. There were black owned farms and also there were Japanese owned farms. They didn’t really know what these mounds were. They were more worried about sink hole areas when plowing than a mound.

@OMGPrezzi 25 күн бұрын

the music in the back is so peaceful

@Andersons999 Ай бұрын

I live miles from here and find things in my plowed fields all time

@hermanhale9258 Ай бұрын

How many miles?

@ShaneRamseyMakesVideos 2 ай бұрын

Nice video, I just visited there myself and made one.

@QueenBDreamwalker 2 ай бұрын

When will they seek the stories from the People have connections to this place. Ca'Hokia was a place of trade & ceremony, Tribes from all across Turtle Island came to this place centuries before colonizers came to these shores. Weary of narratives about us without us 🪶💜🌎

@marshhen 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely. It is like salt in the wounds. Narratives like this imply that somehow all the indigenous cultures that were inheritors of this culture, who might have evolved and developed from Cahokia and other such civilizations, are long gone. The myth that indigenous people have dissapeared and not living, vibrant contemporary cultures all around this continent is such an insidious one. It let's us colonizers continue/accept the status quo and the devastation of indigenous lives and languages all around us. That is why "we" do not centre the voices of indigenous elders because it would disrupt and reveal the complicity of our academic experts.

@mvc4121 2 ай бұрын

Is there any chance the nation extended all the way to the Golf of Mexico, and the sites in Louisiana along with the earthwork mounds along the Ohio are all connected I’ve heard there was evidence of smelting copper in the Pearl River Louisiana region that came from the great lakes

@theodoresmith5272 Ай бұрын

It is possible that someone or some group came up from Mexico, where pyramid building is normal, and the group or culture spread all the way up but also changed too. You can also get copycat building by surrounding groups.

@user-vm7qf5bo6n Ай бұрын

D.n.a has shown that they had south american blood and south america had their blood as well we don't know which came first the chicken or the egg but one built out of stone the other earth absolutely amazing to think about

@mvc4121 Ай бұрын

@@user-vm7qf5bo6n I’ve heard there’s evidence of copper smelting from prehistoric times in the Pearl River Mississippi area that may be linked to the Louisiana area of ancient mound building peoples

@CDLuminous Ай бұрын

What is the name of the Bill passed in Congress?

@backtoyou2648 3 жыл бұрын

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@hypnotiq54 3 жыл бұрын

There's way more to the story then what they would like to share. From the paths they traveled to get here to the amount of people that actually made it to America. According to slavevoyages.com there were 12 million slaves which made it to the Americas but only 5% of those actually made it to North America. That would put the number at a little more than 660,000 people. Out of those 660,000 people 66% of those that came were males. 12.5% were children and the rest were women. So, that means the majority of Africans displaced actually went to Mexico. Now, if you accept their story as told you would have to consider the amount of food needed for the voyage, the weight of carrying let's say 400 people across the Atlantic as well as the weather. I have yet to hear anyone explain the hurricane season which we all now know last at least 6 months. So, that means they definitely couldn't have traveled across the Atlantic for at least 6 months out the year. Then if you consider the weight, they would've never made it going across the Atlantic either. That means they would've gone up and around where the waters would've been less choppy. No matter how you look at it the story doesn't add up. The story also leaves out those taken from America and sent to Spain, etc. As many indigenous people also were removed and taken across the Atlantic.

@michaelcharlesthearchangel 7 ай бұрын

You can blame Spain and France for the destruction of Cahokia and other large cities.

@fluorite1965 6 ай бұрын

Cahokia had already been abandoned before they arrived.

@marshhen 2 ай бұрын

Cahokia as a site had been abandoned but the cultures that had it as their source were themselves very much alive. In the same way the Mayan people and language continued for many centuries after their cities fell into disuse and destruction. I would modify your statement by saying that the arrival of diseases of Europeans along with the mistreatment of indigenous peoples by Europeans killed off 90% of the population between 1400-1700. That is a staggering loss of human culture, languages, that was then taken advantage of by all European colonists including the United States when they declared manifest destiny and took the territory of the West.

@toddfarthing8760 22 күн бұрын

You can blame the Younger Dryas impact for erasing any signs of a previous highly advanced civilization.

@michaelcharlesthearchangel 22 күн бұрын

@@toddfarthing8760, you got that one. The ruins in South America under the jungle and in Central America, point to a much older civilization. Besides, it's not unthinkable that ancient Antarctica had an ancient civilization of Martians who came to Earth as Mars was drying up.

@toddfarthing8760 22 күн бұрын

If only there was a smidgen of evidence for life on Mars. I look at how long the dinosaurs were on this earth and wonder if they evolved into an interstellar species right before the chicxulub impactor.

@kirks.1854 Күн бұрын

High-tech tall Nordics built the mounds. Not "native" americans, which actually were imported here from India and Mongolia in the 1700's.

@roderichroby6236 2 ай бұрын

What or who covered these sites prior to discovery by Americans?

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@tamlamoore7962 4 ай бұрын

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@cosimoamore4349 Ай бұрын

They were not built by the natives, they themselves even said so. They are from an extinct aincient race of humanoids. before our kind ?. Even the elders of the Hopi peoples have some very interesting stories.

@tomasneel1980 Ай бұрын

Kindly I can’t admonish you enough to read the Book of Mormon about the accounts of these ppl, who they are and from whence and where they came. For example , did you know that the ancient names of cities in Mexico like mazatlan. Aztalan. Atlan, and hundreds more is Greek? Yes! They are referencing to Atlantis,or Atlantic, Aztec words with atl.atlan etc means ppl from Far East across the Atlantic 1000s of yrs ago… best wishes.

@jamesdavidray2468 14 күн бұрын

Better read the Book of Mormon so then you can see that Columbus did not discover America. The Book and the People forgotten in time

@JudeSpurlin-pg7ri 2 ай бұрын

The site is a place of human sacrifice.

@franciscosanchez2085 3 жыл бұрын

JA JA JA, ES UN DOCUMENTAL MUY CÓMICO Y DIVERTIDO MÁS FALSO QUE LOS FRANCESES

@JC-zq7qj 4 жыл бұрын

you should change the color of the people portrayed in the painting and the wax figures. these mounds are older than those asians (Mongoloids) who came over and are now "Native American" ... lets talk about the Aboriginal Americans. the 1828 Definition of American not the 2019/2020 definition.

@jamesmac2090 4 жыл бұрын

What color should they be?

@RetroAP 4 жыл бұрын

Hereeeee we go

@hypnotiq54 3 жыл бұрын

They would have been what we call Black. It's amazing how those who we identify as Black have been all over the world, yet the only place we say Black people live is in Africa. The Olmec heads in Mexico are a representation of Black people. The heads on Easter Island also portray Black people. So, we know that there was a Black presence in America long before so called slavery. So, why would it be hard to believe that Blacks were in America long before 1620? Even this date would be wrong as the first so called black captive in slavery was captured off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1524 by the Dutch. Now seeing the proximity of Nova Scotia to America are we still going to say that Black people weren't roaming around?

@Vraptor1 3 жыл бұрын

Malik Aziz hahaha, no

@hypnotiq54 3 жыл бұрын

@@Vraptor1 ...You say no but Mongolians say their ancestors never built these structures. So, then please enlighten us as to who built them? Blacks as you love to call us were here prior to slavery. They were here before the Mongolians crossed the Bering straight. They were here when your ancestors still believed that the Earth was flat. Despite your ignorance, aboriginals have navigated these waters long before your people even knew how to build boats. There is no section of this Earth we have not traveled. When Christopher Columbus traveled he was known as an informant, as that's the initial meaning of the world (1300s - 1500s). He didn't discover anything new as there were people already here. Those people looked Black. Sorry, if you never went beyond the White slanted history taught in schools. This is why people such as yourself need to study more. Go through the Pyramids in Africa. Look at their hieroglyphs. You can clearly see pictures of what is Corn stalks. Yet Corn is indigenous to America. So, how would people from 3,000 years ago know about corn had they not traveled here to America? Also, who were they trading with? The heads on Easter Island look Black. So, where did they get the depiction of Black people if they weren't here already? Why would the Olmecs depict Blacks as warriors if those people weren't here? Go ahead, I'll wait while you think of a lie. Lucy, the dead Indian girl they found still in her clothes was described and genetically confirmed to be a Black woman until another racist scientist tried to say different. You can try and change history but DNA don't lie. People are no longer awe struck by what they witness. People have advanced. I would suggest you catch up to the rest of us. This is no longer 19th century. You cannot regulate my people to the back of the history book. You can no longer White wash history. Blacks as you say were prominent in Europe (Charles IV comes to mind), we didn't just land in Spain but were everywhere. Even the current Queen of England has a Black lineage. That's truth and is not debatable even for someone like you.

@Ric9hardify Жыл бұрын

The red Indians did not build these mounds! In historical writings they admit to not being the builders. These mounds are really the precursors to stone pyramids.

@samsmom1491 10 ай бұрын

Or perhaps they replicated the stone temples using dirt as there wasn't access to enough stone, nor did they have the knowledge to work stone. We really don't know which came first because not enough research has been done by archeologists.

@beaconofchaos 7 ай бұрын

Because the nations who were living there when the Europeans arrived were relative newcomers to that area, so they didn’t build them but they were built by Indigenous Americans most likely Siouan-speaking groups who migrated out of the area when the city began to decline. The earthen pyramid is a recurring architectural tradition throughout what is now the eastern USA, going back as at least 5,000 years. We don’t really know if people from Mesoamerica were inspired to build stone pyramids from the earthen ones of the north or vice versa but they could have also had independent origins as many groups of humans seem to like building large structures.

@marshhen 2 ай бұрын

What racist nonsense you spout. You do not know a thing about this. What stone pyramids? What historical documents? Just utter garbage.

@tomasneel1980 Ай бұрын

@swanknat 7 ай бұрын

these are ruins from the Antediluvian civilization. you have no records besides C14 dating that the Mississippians built these. get some new evidence.

@WorldWokeApeCult 3 ай бұрын

Go learn what ARCHAEOLOGY is.