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Cities, yeah? Big ones? I know of mesoamerican cities like Tenochtitlan but I am unaware of any north american Indian cities (to be fair, I'm not from the USA),
by zasdffaa 4y ago
Cities, yeah? Big ones? I know of mesoamerican cities like Tenochtitlan but I am unaware of any north american Indian cities (to be fair, I'm not from the USA), so some pointers would be very welcome indeed.
- dreamcompiler 4y agoHere are two: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/cahokia-mounds-state-historic-site-world-heritage-site.htm https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/cahokia-mounds-state-histor... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaco_Culture_National_Historical_Park https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaco_Culture_National_Histo...
- zasdffaa 4y agoThe first is debatable as it's city-ness. But that is an eye-opener! The second, wow! Thanks. I guess the scale both indicate a large social structure.
- GuardianCaveman 4y agoI heard a podcast about this I forget which one but they said basically that corn was slowly developing and spreading north but it was not developed to support large civilizations like it did in the central and South America. Had Europeans not come for another 100-200 years I think it would have adapted to northern latitudes and the base for large populations and large cities would have been there. Yes the natives had corn in the north but it was a strain with very few kernels compared to what was being grown in central Mexico. I can’t recall the details but that’s the gist . I think they said only one million natives existed in the continental US when colonists first landed too
- kodah 4y agoSomeone already mentioned Chaco, but I'd like to point you at the Puebloans more widely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puebloans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puebloans
- zasdffaa 4y agoI was aware of the people but I thought they just lived in caves and didn't know of their buildings. Great stuff, thanks.