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Comparing Cahokia And Chaco Canyon
The world works in mysterious ways. This class has determines that people must be able to adapt to environmental changes if they are to survive. The inability to adapt has proven to be the collapse of a particular society time and time again. This essay traces the rise of Cahokia and Chaco Canyon and the developments of each culture to each cultures end.
Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbian town in North America – five times the size of its nearest competition (Thomas 152). Cahokia was composed of a number of competing chiefdoms, sometimes consolidating into a single paramount chiefdom and other times warring with one another. Cahokia was home to 10,000 – 15,000 people and perhaps tens of thousands more lived in the surrounding floodplains
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