The greatest city of ancient North America — a planned metropolis of 120 mounds around the colossal Monks Mound, briefly larger than contemporary London.
Drought, deforestation and social unrest hollowed the city; by 1350 the American Bottom was abandoned, its plazas left to grass.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Cahokia —
the shape you scrub through changes in 1050 · 1151 · 1251.
Moments from the Chronicle
1050The rise of Cahokia On the Mississippi floodplain a planned city explodes into being — 120 mounds around the colossal Monks Mound, briefly the largest settlement north of Mexico.
1350Cahokia abandoned After drought and unrest, the great American Bottom metropolis empties; the Mississippian centres of the Southeast begin their own long declines.