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Month: April 2012

Cahokia, America’s Oldest City

Cahokia, America’s Oldest City

Cahokia? Ask any number of people if they can tell you what Cahokia is and blank faces peer back at you. Never mind that a thousand years ago, Cahokia was a civilization more sophisticated and powerful than any other in the  New World north of Mexico; or that it was one of the largest urban areas of the world, bigger than London at the time; few in America or elsewhere have heard of it. Located in southwestern Illinois, across from…

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