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Podcast: Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
Episode: Cahokia
Description: You are probably familiar with several of the great pre-Columbian cities in the Americas. Places like Tikal in Guatemala, Copan in Honduras, and Tenochtitlan in Mexico are some of the great legacies of the civilizations that came before. However, all of these population centers were located in Mesoamerican. Most of the people who lived in what is today the United States and Canada were nomadic and never built any large cities.However, there was one major exception. Learn more about Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian settlement in North America, on this episode of Everything Ev...