Cahokia Before Columbus Analysis

The article “America Before Columbus” written by Lewis Lord and Sarah Burke intrigues readers interest and curiosity with an interesting topic of Native Americans and America before Columbus arrived. I will be discussing some ideas I summarized from this article. First of all, I have never heard of the name Cahokia before prior to reading the article. I was surprised at the fact that it was once a city in Illinois. In fact, the article described Cahokia as an Illinois Babylon. In addition, a misconception Europeans had about the North American Continent was the idea of it being an empty continent. This misconception was indeed inaccurate. At that time, more than two million people were inhabited in the North American Continent when the whites