Part of The Student Room Group

  • Join over 1.2 million students every month
  • Accelerate your learning by 29%
  • Unlimited access from just £6.99 per month

Cahokia was the largest city in USA before Columbus arrived. Its decline is mostly due to the lack of raw materials and climate changes.

Extracts from this document...

Introduction

Maria Renee Simon America's Forgotten City Main Idea: Enlighten people around the world about this mostly unknown vanished city in America. Supports: * Cahokia was the largest city in USA before Columbus arrived. * Its decline is mostly due to the lack of raw materials and climate changes. * This city has been abandoned and forgotten by many. Essay: Cahokia was the largest city in the United States and the greatest Indian creation before the arrival of Columbus. It has vanished and forgotten in 1492, however Cahokia was populated with around 20,000 residents and had huge man made mounds. ...read more.

Middle

It has a diamond shape with Monk's Mound in the center. People settled in this wonderful land around 650, people began building mounds around the city in 1050, and was abandoned and forgotten around 1300. No one is sure of the reasons why this city disappeared but resource depletion, or the exhaustion of raw materials, was one of the main causes. Cahokia built its residences out of wood. It is believed through research, that the city residents converted forests and trees into landscapes to build houses, until building became unsustainable. There were climate changes as well during this period that were a destructive impact upon the mounds and landscapes of the city. ...read more.

Conclusion

I believe this should be run by a National Park Service rather than the government of Illinois because this deserves to be treated with protection and could be a great tourist site if it was well kept and if there were guides to inform about this vanished culture or Cahokia people. Plazas and poor preservation has destroyed some of the surrounding the Monk's mound and it no longer calls much attention to tourists. Freeways and highways intersect the beautiful lost city of Cahokia and the United States is not properly exhibiting this amusing city to the rest of the world. American people should make the best out of this site and create this location a place for tourists as a tribute for pre-Columbian cultures. ...read more.

The above preview is unformatted text

This student written piece of work is one of many that can be found in our International Baccalaureate Anthropology section.

Found what you're looking for?

  • Start learning 29% faster today
  • 150,000+ documents available
  • Just £6.99 a month

or


Not the one? Search for your essay title...
  • Join over 1.2 million students every month
  • Accelerate your learning by 29%
  • Unlimited access from just £6.99 per month

See related essaysSee related essays

Related International Baccalaureate Anthropology essays

  1. Chinese Architecture. This Essay shortly describes the ancient Chinese architecture with the main point ...

    The construction started in 1406, and took 14 years. It was the home to 24 emperors until 1912 with the abdication of the last emperor Pu Yi. Forbidden City in General The Forbidden City lies in the centre of Beijing and was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasty, which can be seen as a City in

  2. In his movie Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond argues that geography gives certain ...

    One example of this is the effect Hurricane Katrina had on Louisiana and the resulting destruction of local businesses and homes. Also, the world powers of today can trace the sources of their present power to the early "head starts" they had as emerging civilizations with an agricultural surplus, adequate

  1. While each Greek meal is fresh and inviting, it is also a trip back ...

    Many temples were also built for Greeks to show their respect by offering their sacrifices. The Greeks offered such things as stone freezes, "gold vessels, wheat, wine and honey, milk, water and firstfruits." Prayers and hymns acted with sacrifices, performances, dances and different forms of drama.

  2. For my research I interviewed a person from Costa Rica. I found that Costa ...

    The holidays in India are quite different from the holidays in Costa Rica. Indians celebrate Diwali which is the time of New Year according to the Indian calendar, Holi (a festival of colors), Uttrayan (a Kite flying festival), and Independence Day.

  1. Investigating food and culture in Costa Rica

    Like, she would pork meat soup for with some tradition Chinese herb (like medlar, yam etc.) for her husband when he feel exhausted from work. Ginseng is acknowledged as magic herb that used for stronger your immune system. Same as Ticos, Chinese consume different kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits to stay healthy and prevent disease.

  2. The prevalence of memes in Indian Culture

    Within a few days after her sighting, the village was vacated. All the roads were sealed after it was reported that she killed anyone who entered Kulbhata. Today even after 250 years of this incident, nobody dares to enter the village frontier, as it is believed that whoever enters the village will be devoured by her.

  1. Notes on the USA and WW2.

    1935: began a military buildup 2. 1938: rolled tanks into Austria and declared Germany and Austria an Anschluss (union) 3. 1938: Hitler claimed his determination to take the Sudetenland (a part of Czechoslovakia containing 3 million ethnic Germans) 1. Appeasement: 1. In order to avoid war, France (Edouard Daladier), Great Britain (Neville Chamberlain), Italy (Benito Mussolini), and Germany (Adolf Hitler)

  2. Abortion in the USA

    Abortion affects the mothers of the aborted baby, the family of that mother, and families all around the United States that want children and can?t have them. The mothers are faced with the guilt of what they have done and, even with counseling, still often go into depression.

  • Over 160,000 pieces
    of student written work
  • Annotated by
    experienced teachers
  • Ideas and feedback to
    improve your own work